From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 23 11:56: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E4614FA5 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:56:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id MAA05655; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:55:37 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.32.19990323125147.00a86a80@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.32 (Beta) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:55:30 -0700 To: Jonathan Lemon , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux In-Reply-To: <199903231936.NAA10667@free.pcs> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:36 PM 3/23/99 -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >Brett, my take on this is that some people would be more than >willing to support you, and help with advocacy, but the feeling >is that you need to identify or segment your target market a >little better, in order to provide some more focus. Perhaps the source of confusion here is that the "market" here is DEVELOPERS -- who aren't really a market themselves but rather create one. How do you market FreeBSD to developers? Give them what developers want: a stable platform, good development tools, and access to as many users as possible through a SINGLE API and ABI. A FreeBSD emulator, even more so than the Java Virtual Machine (an attempt to do the same thing but at a higher level), does this. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message