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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:06:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
To:        atrn@zeta.org.au (Andy Newman)
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crongratulations to all at USENIX
Message-ID:  <199903050206.VAA00360@y.dyson.net>
In-Reply-To: <199903040217.NAA14038@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Andy Newman at "Mar 4, 99 01:17:08 pm"

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Andy Newman said:
> John Dyson writes:
> > FreeBSD's future is not hanging on technical excellence right now,
> > but on marketing.  The technical excellence is a given.
> 
> Although I didn't say it in the mail I was hoping to imply that
> this technical excellence be used as a marketing angle ... Which
> platform do researchers use for their Unix R&D? And why they pick
> FreeBSD.
> 
So far, BSD is still in the game for research, but with Linux's
predominance, that might change.  The key to keeping share for BSD,
is to warn about the GPL encumberances of research works.  Any
research organization worth it's salt will have legal staff
available.

The key here is awareness so that the licensing terms will be
reviewed.

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@iquest.net      | it makes one look stupid
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.


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