Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 17:33:21 +0000 From: Jack Rusher <jar@rci.net> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform Message-ID: <3555E4E1.F0714AFA@rci.net> References: <199805100511.WAA00309@rah.star-gate.com>
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Amancio Hasty wrote: > > To Netscape , Food for Thought: > > I don't see anyone bitching about NCI's choice of NetBSD (NC Clients) and > FreeBSD (NC Server) nor Yahoo's choice of FreeBSD servers. > > So please elevate FreeBSD to the same status as Linux. FreeBSD is swell, and we all know that, however, people actually know what Linux is (by people, I mean people without enough technical insight to make an informed choice). So, when the CTO of big company wants to say, "Yes, we are making support for free Un*x a priority", he can either make a long list of platforms that most people have never heard of, or he can say the magic word that people have been reading in the trades-- Linux. I can't blame him one bit for saying it the way he is, and ANY support for ANY free Un*x is support for us. The more comfortable people get with free software, Un*x flavored OS's, etc, etc, the more likely they are going to be to give FreeBSD a chance (he sang in a John Lennon voice). Our job is to make the best product possible, and advocate its use to those in a position to understand why they would want it. Our job is to convince software vendors to cross target powerful server tools to FreeBSD. Our job is NOT to fight with our other free Un*x brethren over who has the tightest kernel. -jack -- bash-2.00$ uname -snmr FreeBSD apollo.rci.net 3.0-CURRENT i386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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