Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 10:33:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net> To: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980513102439.22412O-100000@voyager.cris.com> In-Reply-To: <199805130010240788.00CCE456@mailgate.execpc.com>
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On Wed, 13 May 1998, Frank Pawlak wrote: > The story does not end there. Linux attracted no press, it was still a > hackers OS. The Linux hackers published, founded their own journal, the > BSD crowd did not. Until Caldera and RedHat were formed Linux was still an > unimportant OS. Didn't show up on any radar screens. Slackware was there, > but commercial use, no. Arises that ugly word, marketing. RedHat goes a long way toward making Linux viable to more users. FreeBSD doesn't have a "RedHat". FreeBSD NEEDS a RedHat. Walnut Creek is NOT being "that entity" for FreeBSD. Yes Linux has an almost rabid following, but as far as actual promotion (of the sane kind) quite a bit of it comes from commercial entities who scream at the top of their corporate lungs, "LINUX!!!" I don't think anyone who runs FreeBSD does that, at least I don't see it happening from my "consumer" chair. I had NO idea that Yahoo! and Walnut creek ran on FreeBSD until I started DIGGING to find out something about FreeBSD. The odd site here and there posts chucky on their page so it does get some coverage and before I started becoming interested, I knew it existed and I knew it was viable, but that's _it_. I did not know that it could be used for a wide variety of applications, NOR that it was viable on the desktop. So....1. Commercial Support. FreeBSD needs a "RedHat". 2. Get people interested so that they READ about FreeBSD as they do about Linux. Oh...and why do hackers go for the "more restricted license", it has, I think, more to do with a "SCREW corporate America!" attitude than anything else. They LIKE the fact that the code can't be snatched up and re-used in a restricted manner, regardless of the fact that SOME software WON'T get developed unless someone PAYS someone to do it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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