From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 2 15:13:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.smed.com (smtp.smed.com [12.20.51.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8870437B66D; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpgate.shrmed.com (keymaster.smed.com [12.20.51.2]) by smtp.smed.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D68161C1; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:13:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from iesa14.shrmed.com (iesa14.shrmed.com [10.1.99.114]) by smtpgate.shrmed.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA30099; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:13:08 -0400 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com Received: from Deimos.smed.com (unverified) by iesa14.shrmed.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with SMTP id ; Mon, 02 Oct 2000 18:06:12 -0400 Received: by Deimos.smed.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 8525696C.007941D2 ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:04:27 -0400 X-Lotus-FromDomain: SMS To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, jswarner@uswest.net (Joe Warner), mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org (Michael Lucas) Message-Id: <8525696C.007940A5.00@Deimos.smed.com> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:06:59 -0600 Subject: Re: BSD Magazine? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok, then advertising shouldn't be an issue and the editor I spoke with at Linux Magazine was simply misinformed, right? What I've been hearing thus far, is that a large number of advertisers don't advertise their products as being compatible with the BSDs because, amid the current popularity of Linux, haven't heard of the BSDs or for unknown reasons, haven't referenced the BSDs in their ads. When I started the long thread (BSD Magazine?) a while back, I saw quite a number of responses stating that demand for a magazine in print wouldn't be the issue, finding adequate sponsorship and advertising would. So, it seems if a BSD focused magazine is to become a reality, efforts need to be made to spread the word to the advertisers as well as publishers, with heavy emphasis on the previous. Joe |--------+-----------------------> | | Terry Lambert| | | | | | | | | 10/02/00 | | | 02:58 PM | | | | |--------+-----------------------> >---------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org (Michael | | Lucas) | | cc: jswarner@uswest.net (Joe Warner), | | freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, | | freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, (bcc: Joe | | Warner/SMS) | | Subject: Re: BSD Magazine? | >---------------------------------------------------------| > > Why would advertising be such a big problem, since most applications > > that are made for Linux, will run on *BSD? What products are > > made for Linux exclusively and won't run on *BSD? > > While advertisers do make products that *run* on BSD, they don't > advertise their products as being usable on BSD. All the difference. This is wrong. Many companies support BSDI or FreeBSD versions, and have since the glibc2 debacle made it nearly impossible to maintain only a single Linux distribution. A good example is Zend, which builds a PHP optimizer, and distributes 1 FreeBSD version and 3 Linux versions of the same program because of binary incompatability between Linux distributions. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message