From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 19 6:57:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1895A14DCA for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 06:57:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA22359; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 07:57:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36F265BE.36C1F4ED@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 07:57:02 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Price Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux emulation != FreeBSD sale (was Re: Netscape browser) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Price wrote: > > Linux sales = real Linux sales + sales for emulated copies > > I don't know the solution to this problem. I do know that > using a Linux product under emulation doesn't do much to bolster > interest (at least not from the company putting out the product) > unless we get the numbers to count in our favor. This is an excellent opportunity for some advocacy that has a chance of doing something useful. Getting vendors of Linux apps to a) test their products under FreeBSD linux emulation, or at least accept OUR test results; b) advertise their products as being compatible with FreeBSD; and c) record sales number for FreeBSD to guage the user base would be a big plus to the FreeBSD community. This might even eventually lead to commitments to produce FreeBSD native versions, or at least to guarantee (and bug-fix) their code will run under the linuxulator. I've already gotten the vendors of Wingz (spreadsheet) to agree to a and b, and to put whatever logo we can come up with on their Linux download page. They are interested in tracking sales numbers, too, but aren't going to do anything until we get them a logo and etc for steps a and b. So, if you're really interested in running with this, email me back privately and I'll send you over all the archived information. And good luck getting any artwork; I *never* manage to get past that step. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message