From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 22:30:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F197C16A4CF; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:30:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smradoch.ath.cx (r2g224.chello.upc.cz [62.245.70.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B93043D2D; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:30:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from neuhauser@chello.cz) Received: by smradoch.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D75071F87BEE; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:30:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:30:17 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20050208223017.GG15119@isis.wad.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Scott Long , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4205F382.8020404@freebsd.org> <20050206194857.5920e369.diegocglinux@yahoo.es> <42066967.1060300@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42066967.1060300@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The case for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:30:19 -0000 # scottl@freebsd.org / 2005-02-06 12:00:55 -0700: > Diego Calleja wrote: > In the firefox 1.0 release it has been > >demonstrated that agressive "marketing" _matters_ even if you are not > >a company. Firefox is a great browser, but it would not have been as > >succesful if there was not so much noise around it. What Freebsd > >needs is to make more noise, documeting changes is good but it > >doesn't really makes lot of noise. > > The Firefox comparison is actually very apt. There are quite a few > areas where Firefox is still inferior to the Mozilla Suite, but the team > has done an _outstanding_ job of advertising Firefox for what it is. Am I the only one who thinks that anything that comes out of mozilla.org sucks proportionally to its distance from epoch? 1.8a6 stole my backspace, for example (^H pops up a history window). Please don't go that route. (But I'll donate to a NYT ad if you want to have one.) -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html