From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 13:48:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6CF16A4CE; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:48:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B19C43D31; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:48:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i06LmPHV051313; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:48:25 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost)i06LmOAt051310; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:48:24 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:48:24 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040106234532.L32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Where is FreeBSD going? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:48:28 -0000 On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Robert Watson wrote: > 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. > i'm not quite sure this is a replacement for a postgersql / gnome / openoffice style marketing team though. > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research >