Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 14:59:47 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Jack Rusher <jar@rci.net> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform Message-ID: <199805102159.OAA01130@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 May 1998 17:33:21 -0000." <3555E4E1.F0714AFA@rci.net>
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Excuse me , I am not advocating ragging on linux rather asking netscape and friends to elevate freebsd at least at the same level and in the case of netscape it can be constituted as a chicken / egg type problem if netscape do choses to mention FreeBSD as an alternative OS FreeBSD we all win. I will even take a statement from netscape with the tone of : We like Linux as Open Source OS however these others Open Source OSes do merit consideration , FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and if you wish to know more about them here is how you can contact them,etc.. Remember , Netscape knows how to promote new technologies. Amancio > 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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