Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:35:12 -0700 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: It's official! Message-ID: <36F90630.93B7F630@thuntek.net>
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I am proud to be able to announce that Bob Bruce of Walnut Creek CDROM and I have reached agreement for my company, Wilde Media, to act as a paid consultant to The FreeBSD Project for the purposes of expanding our advocacy and paid public relations efforts. Mr. Bruce, a longtime supporter of the Project, believes that it is in his enlightened self-interest to advance the cause of FreeBSD, and we who are users all appreciate his many years of financial and resource support for the Project. We both believe that FreeBSD's ace in the hole is the BSD license, because it enables users to create profitable applications like Yahoo! without encumbrance by onerous license restrictions like the GPL and other more-restrictive legalisms. People with money have more time for philanthropy, and the steady growth of FreeBSD is evidence that people who make success and profit from their use of FreeBSD do contribute time and code back to the mother source tree. Our tack is going to be to take the highest high road here, that FreeBSD is both better and restriction-free than any other OS, but we're not going to descend into flame wars. We have the gift. If others choose to use another OS or more restrictive software, that is their choice. We of FreeBSD are going to concentrate on improving our system, promoting it fairly, making money through its use, and helping others do the same. You will not see hype coming from us, and we hope you also will restrain yourselves for the sake of FreeBSD's image. There are many projects we have in mind, and the primary focus of my effort is going to be coordinating and providing lots of resources and incentives for you all to be better prepared and have more fun supporting the Project. We all know what a gift FreeBSD is, and now we have the resources to place it firmly on the map as the pre-eminent Open Source Server Operating System available to the world. We will also be adding focus on the desktop market and working on enhancing our CPUshare in the consumer market, additions which will not diminish our technical superiority in the server market. I will be using this forum to coordinate requests for specific project support from you, and we will also be expanding the ../advocacy sections on both FreeBSD.org and FreeBSDMall.com with downloadable resources, coordination calendars and request forms for many, many things. We will also be enlisting the aid of DaemonNews and the other e-zines to expand on our plans and the reasoning behind them, so that you are all informed advocates. Jordan Hubbard will continue to be "The FreeBSD Guy". This is intended to free him up to tackle even more exciting things planned for FreeBSD's future, and we're all excited about the new possibilities. We are all planning to meet in Concord on the 8th of April, in conjunction with the Bay Area FreeBSD Users' Group meeting, for a major strategy conference and announcements of strategic and tactical goals. Let me say finally that we all know that we cannot achieve our goals without your continuing support in time and effort. Other OSen have a huge lead and much more in the way of resources and money, but our view is of the long term, where we are the small furry mammals scurrying around under the feet of the clashing dinosaurs, and we will someday pick their bones. -- Donald Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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