From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 10 23:05:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17730 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:05:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles351.castles.com [208.214.167.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17723 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:05:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA87169; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:01:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901110701.XAA87169@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Drew Derbyshire cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of the union, 1999. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:24:00 EST." <36996ED0.CA25B959@kew.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:01:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > With the release of FreeBSD 3.0, FreeBSD utterly blew the _official_ > evangelism end of it. There was this great new product with wonderful > features in it (CAM, SMP, and all the rest), and ... I didn't see squat about > it in the trade papers. 3.0 was not meant to be evangelised. Read the release materials. > Someone at the online end of either CMP publications or IDG (I forget which) > was actively looking for an official FreeBSD mouthpiece the week after 3.0 > came out, and they couldn't find anyone. Nada. Then they sure as hell didn't try very hard. I was at my desk every day; everyone at WC knows where I am, and there are several other people around that could talk about it if pressed. As the CDROM publisher, our phone numbers are printed on the CDROMs and contact information is to be found in the release documentation. Yes, we have a crap marketting organisation. Unfortunately, hackers make terrible publicists. Until we can raise the money to pay some people to do this well, we're kinda stuck here. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message