From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 2 21:13:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22922 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 21:13:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22857 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 21:12:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA19288; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 14:20:39 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199810030420.OAA19288@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981002215535.040ed100@mail.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Oct 2, 98 10:01:15 pm" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 14:20:39 +1000 (EST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, fpawlak@execpc.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > Frank and I are not the only people who perceive that FreeBSD is plagued by a > lack of investment in marketing. Walnut Creek doesn't seem willing to > make that investment. > > Now, what would you have us do? Sit back and let FreeBSD lose out to Linux? > Break away from Walnut Creek by publishing another version, thereby fragmenting > the market and, possibly, development efforts? Neither is a better alternative > than getting Walnut Creek off its duff, but the latter may be necessary if we > don't see things change soon. Maybe you'd be better off looking at other FreeBSD distributions like http://www.cybernet.com/ (NetMAX), for example, and going out to tell the world about them. My guess is that people subscribed to this list are tired of hearing you have verbal tantrums. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message