From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 1 1:19:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from postman.bayarea.net (postman.bayarea.net [205.219.84.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB101535A for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 01:19:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Dave@Yost.com) Received: from [205.219.69.138] (205-219-69-138.bayarea.net [205.219.69.138]) by postman.bayarea.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA12089; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 01:18:54 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: dayost@mail.bayarea.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <32308.920267039@zippy.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:18:20 PST." Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 01:18:22 -0800 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Dave Yost Subject: Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:43 PM -0800 1999-02-28, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Sorry. I've been going on extensive hearsay. You guys who use >> these heavily will have to come up with the comparison. > > And perhaps now you begin to realize the extent of the problem. > > Effective marketing isn't created as a result of people running around > screaming "disaster! calamity!", it's created by people actually doing > the work of creating comparisons and other promotional material. > Considering your earlier burst of enthusiasm, I find your "someone > else will have to come up with something tangible" attitude to be a > little inexplicable. :-) I knew someone would say all of this. I have my reasons for remaining on the sidelines. And the discussion is humming along very nicely now with useful information coming forth. I am grateful to all of the contributors to FreeBSD et al. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message