From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 17 11:39:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6EEC37B578 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:39:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06934; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:38:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000317123523.04194670@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:37:56 -0700 To: Brad Knowles , Paul Richards From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Doug Barton , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <38D26540.3AF8943F@originative.co.uk> <4.2.2.20000315174932.03efa380@localhost> <4.2.2.20000316174913.041235e0@localhost> <38D26540.3AF8943F@originative.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:32 AM 3/17/2000 , Brad Knowles wrote: > 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. I don't know about this. BSDI has been one of the most low-profile outfits in the industry, and many folks at Walnut Creek seem to be allergic to evangelism. I think that only in the presence of multiple distributions will BSD become more popular. --Brett Glass Microsoft is continually protecting its turf, even if that turf appears to the rest of us as belonging to a company other than Microsoft. -- Robert X. Cringely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message