From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 27 21:27:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.erols.com (smtp3.erols.com [207.172.3.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5011D152FE for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:27:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-251.s60.as3.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.251]) by smtp3.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA10134; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:27:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906280427.AAA10134@smtp3.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990625235045.49711@ns.int.ftf.net> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:27:16 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Phil Regnauld Subject: Re: PR broken? was Re: Linux not FreeBSD? Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, brett@lariat.org, zen@buddhist.com, Terry Lambert Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25-Jun-99 Phil Regnauld wrote: > Terry Lambert writes: >> > >> > Do we get their reputation, also ? >> >> Mult-ibillion-dollar corporations who are willing to go out of their >> way to avoid alienating the majority of people because that's how >> they ensure that they will be around in the future? >> >> I hope so... > > It's called pleasing the masses -- not quite the FreeBSD approach. Well, you kind of got the point. Try reading the last part of Terry's sentence and the last part of yours... Eventually, FreeBSD is going to have to tailor to a wide base of people, not just Unix hackers if it wants to leave its mark. While it's still being developed, we don't every Joe Schmoe, I agree. It will have to change sometime though. I think the first group we should target (and I think FreeBSD should be heavily targeting them now) is Universities, before they all end up using Linux and leaving BSD out in the cold. Somehow, we need to make BSD attractice to researchers. I wish I knew more of how to do this. --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message