From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 10 11:19:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA1737B91B for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:19:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA25464; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:14:57 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003101914.LAA25464@implode.root.com> To: Dennis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:35:18 EST." <200003101840.NAA12885@etinc.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:14:57 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >instead of NT. Instead of Linux. The existing BSD market is too small. They >have failed to convince the world that BSD is the answer. Outside of the >US. linux is totally dominant. I'm not sure where you get your market demographics, but at least in Japan, FreeBSD is on par with Linux in popularity. If we had even half of the success in the US that we've enjoyed in Japan, then we'd be a lot further along in mindshare. But all of this speaks to the past and doesn't consider what may be ahead. It's true that BSD in general has sucked at marketing. One of the primary goals with the new company is to change that. In time we'll know if this was just wishful thinking. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message