From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 28 6:41:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hostigos.otherwhen.com (dialin2017.pernet.net [205.229.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1381B14DA6 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 06:41:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mavery@mail.otherwhen.com) Received: from mail.otherwhen.com (mail.2.229.205.in-addr.arpa [205.229.2.19] (may be forged)) by hostigos.otherwhen.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA02722 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:41:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from PORKY/SpoolDir by mail.otherwhen.com (Mercury 1.45); 28 Jun 99 08:41:29 -0600 Received: from SpoolDir by PORKY (Mercury 1.45); 28 Jun 99 08:41:16 -0600 Received: from francis.otherwhen.com (12.65.147.224) by mail.otherwhen.com (Mercury 1.45) with ESMTP; 28 Jun 99 08:41:06 -0600 From: "Mike Avery (on the road)" To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:40:55 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: PR broken? was Re: Linux not FreeBSD? In-reply-to: <199906280427.AAA10134@smtp3.erols.com> References: <19990625235045.49711@ns.int.ftf.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) Message-ID: <2C7D22A698B@mail.otherwhen.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28 Jun 99, at 0:27, John Baldwin wrote: > Eventually, FreeBSD is going to have to tailor to a wide base of people, not > just Unix hackers if it wants to leave its mark. While it's still being > developed, we don't every Joe Schmoe, I agree. It will have to change sometime > though. I think the first group we should target (and I think FreeBSD should > be heavily targeting them now) is Universities, before they all end up using > Linux and leaving BSD out in the cold. Somehow, we need to make BSD attractice > to researchers. I wish I knew more of how to do this. I somehow doubt every Joe Schmoe will be using any flavor of Unix any time soon. It's gotten too much of a "hard to learn, hard to use" reputation. Undoing that reputation will take some real work. However, I find the idea of "while it's still being developed" to be an interesting one. When FreeBSD is no longer being developed, it will be dead. Just like any other OS that is no longer being developed. Times change. Hardware platforms change. People's needs change. And a living OS has to change to accomodate that. I hope no one is waiting until FreeBSD is "done" to start promoting it.... Mike ====================================================================== Mike Avery MAvery@mail.otherwhen.com (409)-842-2942 (work) ICQ: 16241692 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * A Randomly Selected Product Warning WARNING: This product attracts every other piece of matter in the universe, including the products of other manufacturers, with a force proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message