From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Dec 3 10: 6:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA7437B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:06:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB63943ED4 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:06:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2597A8A3303; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:06:57 -0400 (AST) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:06:57 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Johnson David Cc: advocacy@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: List of big names ... In-Reply-To: <200212021246.48260.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Message-ID: <20021203140503.L36076-100000@hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Johnson David wrote: > Do we need big names? Do we really need a user base that insists on > using what the Joneses are using? The "everyone" that's falling behind > Linux are just a handful of mega-corporations. When you look at small > corporations and businesses, there are quite a few that use FreeBSD > instead of Linux. My ISP is one of them. But announcing my ISP in a list > to impress corporate bigwigs isn't going to impress anyone. Actually, you'd be surprised ... the argument that I just had thrown at me dealt exactly with the fact that the co-lo and dedicated server ISPs out there are supporting Linux, not FreeBSD ... > There are a couple of things that FreeBSD could do, short of selling its > soul through incorporation. One thing that might be interesting is to > make the Linux compatibility framework be LSB compliant (if possible). > Another is to set up a foundation, so there's at least some semblance of > hiearchical organization. Ummmm ... there used to be a FreeBSD Foundation, wasn't there? In fact, I thought that FreeBSD was incorporated as a non-profit as well? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message