Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 16:27:58 -0800 From: hasty@netcom.com To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD Consortium Message-ID: <199503150028.QAA21501@netcom14.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 14 Mar 95 15:40:28 -0800. <199503142340.PAA29332@kithrup.com>
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> >what goals would you personally put forth? > Such a consortium should be willing and able to promote BSD. It should be > willing to sponsor distributions, scholarships, grants, whatever. Well, Xfree86 before they incoporated were getting very little support;however, when they incorporated, they got financial support from a few institutions. Next, I think that FreeBSD needs focus, goals, and marketing strategies and serve the needs of users! In order for FreeBSD to be attractive to your typical users: o Easy installation procedure My first time installing FreeBSD-2.0 was not a very pleasant one. While installaing Xfree86, I got a system panic. Net install from my second machine didn't work, the install procedure couldn't find my machine,etc... o iBSC2 support A cheap way of getting apps into freebsd. I havent heard yet if WordPerfect works or not for FreeBSD after I posted the Linux excerpt on iBSC2 . My net connection for downloading 30MBs sucks! o Dos emulator o Native applications The linux crowd are very happy to just pester the hell out of vendors to get them to port the apps to linux. Some Database vendors are considering rolling out their databases with linux so perhaps this a good time to start talking to some of them. If we can roll a couple of decent games like Descent, it will be fantastic !! Our sales pitch could be that Id ported effortlessly Doom to several Unix Platforms and recently there has been a lot of attention between VR companies and Unix Companies such as SGI. >| Robert Hanz | Tech support - support@interplay.com | >| Interplay Productions | Order info - orderdesk@interplay.com | >| 17922 Fitch Avenue | Web page - http://www.interplay.com | >| Irvine, CA 92714 | Tech support phone - (714)553-6678 | I hope that we mail bomb Interplay!! o People need to know about FreeBSD so this falls on the area of Marketing. If we can convince a few vendors to do a port the applications we can get a lot of exposure this way. If you notice, I left out quality for one good reason. I look at microsoft dos/windows and the quality of the products well it sucks. As far as I am concern we are in better shape than they are. So lay back and think APPS :) Amancio
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