From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 13 10:18: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from wolf.cian.net (tnt-3-244.easynet.co.uk [195.40.202.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F9614BE5 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:17:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: from ukonline.co.uk (localhost.cian.net [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.cian.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA01079; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:15:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Message-ID: <37137BA1.132E338E@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:15:14 +0100 From: Christopher Raven Organization: CIAN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: Nik Clayton , advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Charles Henrich a Star? References: <199904131601.MAA03103@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------A7443E8BF338B8549D25B065" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------A7443E8BF338B8549D25B065 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit IMHO putting *down* Linux is counter productive (consider it in-fighting of the Free OS's) and a comparison with say commercial OS's would be better. EXAMPLE: - ---- "Top movie FX company chooses FreeBSD over commercial offerings for its increased reliability" Possibly followed closely by (for example) ....... Insiders say "There was no competition - we needed a fast, stable and reliable platform and, we needed it like yesterday ...... " ---- If MR Henrich would be so kind as to repeat the above statement then it would be no lie ;-) Cheers, Chris R. W Gerald Hicks wrote: > "Movie FX company chooses FreeBSD over Linux for increased reliability" > > I dunno... might cause a negative backlash with the direct comparison. > > I'd just: > > "Movie FX company chooses FreeBSD for increased reliability". > > Cheers, > > Jerry Hicks > wghicks@bellsouth.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The power to serve http://www.freebsd.org/ --------------A7443E8BF338B8549D25B065 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit IMHO putting *down* Linux is counter productive (consider it in-fighting of the Free OS's) and a comparison with say commercial OS's would be better.

EXAMPLE: -

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"Top movie FX company chooses FreeBSD over commercial offerings for its increased reliability"

Possibly followed closely by (for example) .......

Insiders say "There was no competition - we needed a fast, stable and reliable platform and, we needed it like yesterday ...... "
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If MR Henrich would be so kind as to repeat the above statement then it would be no lie  ;-)
 

Cheers,
Chris R.
 
 
 
 
 

W Gerald Hicks wrote:

"Movie FX company chooses FreeBSD over Linux for increased reliability"

I dunno... might cause a negative backlash with the direct comparison.

I'd just:

"Movie FX company chooses FreeBSD for increased reliability".

Cheers,

Jerry Hicks
wghicks@bellsouth.net

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