From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:26:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F22316A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:26:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8509443D1D for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:26:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id B2BE21C00081 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:26:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 8779A1C00085 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:26:05 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050211222605555.8779A1C00085@mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:26:05 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1935025570.20050211232605@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1108146951.31338.10.camel@hatter.wonderland.dn> References: <1108126229.4084.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <2fd864e05021106537bdcff09@mail.gmail.com> <1108146951.31338.10.camel@hatter.wonderland.dn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:26:07 -0000 Julio Capote writes: > A website like www.spreadfirefox.com aims at targetting firefox to > regular users that may not get the full "marketing dosage" from > www.mozilla.org, so why not do the same for freebsd? Because FreeBSD is a server, not a desktop. The real market potential is on the server side. And if you want to convince large organizations to adopt FreeBSD as a server, you must not present it as a substitute for Windows desktops, a/k/a "regular users." > www.spreadfreebsd.com could have a faq that would debunk alot > of "Can FreeBSD run KDE?" or "Can I watch movies on FreeBSD?" type > myths ... There aren't likely to be any CIOs or CEOs or small-business owners asking such questions in the first place. Do you think companies like Yahoo are using FreeBSD to _watch movies_? > ... also we could have some kickass screenshots ... Nobody in serverland cares about screenshots. Screenshots are for games. > ... to show that FreeBSD can do anything Linux can do on the server > end and the desktop. Screenshots say _absolutely nothing_ about what an OS can do as a server. And FreeBSD is not any more suitable for the desktop than Linux (which is to say, it's hardly usable at all). One of the things you have to have clear in your mind when promoting an OS is exactly what market you want to reach. The server market in large organizations is diametrically opposed to the desktop market, and both are diametrically opposed to the consumer market. You can't court one without alienating the others. You can't have everything. You must decide which market you want. FreeBSD, like all UNIX operating systems (sorry, I should say UNIX(R)-like), shines as a server, not as a desktop, and even less as a consumer desktop. If you want to make the OS succeed, you pitch it to the market for which the OS is best suited ... and that is the server market. If you pitch the OS to the desktop and consumer markets, you can write-off the server market ... operating systems that seem to be desktop- or consumer-oriented make CIOs very nervous (and justifiably so). > Overall the website would be aimed > for people that are curious about freebsd but cant find what they are > looking for in www.freebsd.org or #freebsd, What do you guys think? I think www.freebsd.org already covers the geeks perfectly. If you build a separate site, there's no point in aiming it at those same geeks. You must target someone else. And hope that they don't see the geek site. -- Anthony