From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 30 2:27:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from neutron.cichlids.com (as4-052.rp-plus.de [149.221.238.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D3F14E68 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 02:27:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by neutron.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA56689; Sun, 30 May 1999 11:23:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: (from alex@localhost) by cichlids.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00643; Sun, 30 May 1999 11:13:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex) From: Alexander Langer Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 11:13:59 +0200 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Andreas Klemm , Stefan Bethke , advocacy@freebsd.org, de-bsd-chat@DE.FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: German Advocacy on BSD Message-ID: <19990530111359.A627@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <19990529231941.A18101@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <33159.928016525@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <33159.928016525@zippy.cdrom.com> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@zippy.cdrom.com): > USENET/WEB/EMAIL articles it generates, is also a reasonable indicator > of how approachable an OS is and "approachability" is another > important factor in our favor, something which Stefan's article sort > of touches on but doesn't really illustrate in depth. But most of the questions and problems that appear in Usenet/Web/Email/IRC are very general and the answer is almost the same for other OS' (BSD), too. (I think of "How do I configure the network if-card?"). So far the user support which claims to be Linux support is also partly BSD support. > not saying that the other *BSDs are incapable of similar feats, but > until they've powered a Yahoo, a Hotmail or an ftp.freebsd.org, it's > an academic rather than proven fact. :-) If you can believe Microsoft-payd studies, then it's proven that Linux does NOT (see heise newsticker, some weeks ago, for the link). Alex -- ************** I doubt, therefore I might be. ************** *** Send email to to get PGP-Key *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message