From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 7 14:00:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17341 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 May 1997 14:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA17331 for ; Wed, 7 May 1997 14:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id NAA28096; Wed, 7 May 1997 13:59:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from nouvelle(192.168.100.9) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma028094; Wed, 7 May 97 13:59:32 -0700 Message-ID: <3370ED69.1A4C@PartsNow.com> Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 14:00:25 -0700 From: Don Wilde Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01E-NOV-NOV (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Oneil CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD/Linux References: <3.0.32.19970507130951.009d49e0@visigenic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>So why is there more software for Linux???<< The same reason Billy Gimbo is a rich man despite an inferior product: Marketing, Marketing, Marketing! On this subject, I suggest we spend less time writing on this Q&A list and more time writing books which are based on FreeBSD in the real world, as that is imnsho one of the 2 main reasons for Linux popularity. The other is the charismatic damn-the-big-guys story of Linus Torvald's history. We can't do much about the second reason, but I'm sure a lot of the guys on the core team have more than enough juice to write O'Reilly-quality books specifically using FreeBSD as the educational vehicle. The other thing we can do is to develop a marketing team for FreeBSD which will generate *official* news releases to send to the popular and trade press. There's a lot of good news about FreeBSD, starting with the fact that it was plug-and-play long before the 'Doze boneheads thought up the concept, playing up the **freely distributable** angle as per Richard Stallman's FSF and the MIT X group, playing up the SCO, BSDi and Linux emulation, and ending with the beautiful work the bt848 and other multimedia guys are doing with bleeding edge technology. And don't forget the staggering disparity in numbers between FreeBSD (and Linux) vs. Netscape or Microsoft or Solaris-hosted webservers. Somehow I don't think we'd appear so far behind... -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo