From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Mar 3 12:12:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FC2814F8D for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:12:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 15367 invoked from network); 3 Mar 1999 20:11:15 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 3 Mar 1999 20:11:15 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA01416; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:11:13 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903032011.PAA01416@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: what's in a name? In-Reply-To: <19990303224958.A3681@corp.au.triax.com> from Jim Mock at "Mar 3, 99 10:49:59 pm" To: jim@corp.au.triax.com Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:11:13 -0500 (EST) Cc: eT@KryptoKom.DE, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Mock said: > On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 at 11:57:44 +0100, eT wrote: > > you know, this whole lin*x thing has me baffled. ... i am > > wondering why linux has a larger user/suport base in the first > > place? > > Plain and simple.. publicity. Linux is what's talked about in the > news. Alot of people don't even know they have any other options. > Blame it on the media.. it seems they like to call all free unices > "Linux". > "Blame it on the media?" Nope, it is a problem with exposure, and the media being as "lazy"* as it is, they do need to be schmoozed and spoon-fed. Part of PR is being part of the "network". * By "lazy" I mean will not dig deep, if on the surface the info looks complete. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message