From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Sep 15 08:25:05 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5BE16A403
	for <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:25:05 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from freebsd-advocacy@m.gmane.org)
Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4D243D46
	for <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:25:04 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from freebsd-advocacy@m.gmane.org)
Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43)
	id 1GO90Q-0006gA-9D
	for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:25:02 +0200
Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113])
	by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian))
	id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00
	for <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:25:02 +0200
Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian))
	id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00
	for <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:25:02 +0200
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:19:48 +0200
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <eednnq$9q9$1@sea.gmane.org>
References: <freebsd-advocacy.20060914174009.A1031@ganymede.hub.org>
	<200609150804.k8F84NLr002644@lurza.secnetix.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060625)
In-Reply-To: <200609150804.k8F84NLr002644@lurza.secnetix.de>
Sender: news <news@sea.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism <freebsd-advocacy.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-advocacy-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-advocacy-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-advocacy-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:25:05 -0000

Oliver Fromme wrote:

> In fact, I think that mentioning too many different BSD
> variants is counter-productive against the goals of the
> project.  The main goal is to provide numbers to vendors
> and manufacturers, in order to get better support.
> However, mentioning a dozen different BSD variants will
> likely turn them away.
> 
> Therefore I propose that only the "big four" are mentioned
> explicitely on the homepage, and all the rest be counted
> as "others" or similar.

Yes, this is likely to be much better than the current state of things.