Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:36:31 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Where is FreeBSD going? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040106163408.87887d-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKIEFLJEAA.davids@webmaster.com>
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, David Schwartz wrote: > FreeBSD does need more advocacy if it wants to get the kind of > visibility and credibility that Linux has in the public perception. > Frankly, I'm kind of baffled that it doesn't. I've always found the two > OSes more or less interchangeable and tend to install whichever one > whose CD I can find first. The best advocacy FreeBSD can get is to have happy users explain to the rest of the world how much they like our cool aid. Or rather, one of the greatest contributions end-users can make to FreeBSD is to tell their friends (and then help them get up and going :-). It's also one of the greatest compliments you can give. Developers are typically fairly bad at advocacy, and perhaps it's better that the developers work on what they're good at (since it always seems a few more hands can help). So if you (in the general sense, not you specifically) like FreeBSD, and feel like documentation or code aren't your fortes, go out and give a talk at your local Linux user group about FreeBSD. Or explain to the people at your company that they could go out and buy Windows, Solaris, or Linux with support, or they could rely on your own expertise in-house and get the job done at a fraction of the cost. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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