Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:10:58 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux Message-ID: <19990323141058.23084@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990323125147.00a86a80@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Mar 03, 1999 at 12:55:30PM -0700 References: <local.mail.freebsd-advocacy/19990323054252$ca17@fish.pcs> <local.mail.freebsd-advocacy/4.2.0.32.19990322194937.03ee4600@localhost> <4.2.0.32.19990323125147.00a86a80@localhost>
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On Mar 03, 1999 at 12:55:30PM -0700, Brett Glass 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. I'd have to disagree with this. The market isn't developers. For example, Oracle uses FreeBSD internally, and the developers love it (if we are to believe John Dyson), but there is no native Oracle port. I believe that the same situation exists with Netscape. > 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. Yes, I agree, this is nice. But developers != marketers, and it's the marketers who usually make the business decisions. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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