From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 17 9:38:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE6C37BD57 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:38:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A8612548; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:37:59 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <38D26540.3AF8943F@originative.co.uk> References: <4.2.2.20000315174932.03efa380@localhost> <4.2.2.20000316174913.041235e0@localhost> <38D26540.3AF8943F@originative.co.uk> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:32:52 +0100 To: Paul Richards From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Cc: Brett Glass , Rahul Siddharthan , Doug Barton , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 5:02 PM +0000 2000/3/17, Paul Richards wrote: > You may think that's a good thing, but that's a whole different argument > i.e. do we want BSD to be a mainstream OS in the first place? Not > everyone does. That's a good question. Myself, I'd like to see it become much more mainstream than it is today. I don't want it to become the next Microsoft Windows (or much of anything else from that company), but I would like to see it become much more mainstream than it is today. Personally, I think this is going to happen. The marketing in the past hasn't been very good, but I think that the folks at BSD, Inc. recognize that this needs to change, and that they need to do whatever it takes to make this change. This isn't to say that they'll sell out everything that the community believes in, in order to make it a fully mainstream OS, just that they need to put some serious marketing behind the product, and let the technical side take care of itself (as it has always done). -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message