Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:27:54 -0600 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: jdn@qiv.com (Jay D. Nelson) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions), chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Commercial Applications?? Message-ID: <199701161827.MAA00582@papillon.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970113223016.3690B-100000@acp.qiv.com> from "Jay D. Nelson" at "Jan 13, 97 10:54:24 pm"
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(follow up to -chat; this is no longer appropriate stuff for -questions). Jay D. Nelson writes: > Why not just say "A production quality Unix for IBM PCs" or something > similar. (Is *nix or clone more politically correct?) Mentioning Linux > at all suggests that Linux is somehow best of breed. FreeBSD offers me > what Linux doesn't and Linux offers some things that FreeBSD doesn't. This might be a possible alternative. Yes, the name UNIX is a trade mark or some such, but you'll notice the text on the top of the cover: "FreeBSD turns your PC into a powerful UNIX workstation". Maybe we could tone down the reference to Linux. > BTW, I don't think a daemon with sneakers _or_ a penguin does much for > the marketing effort. `Maudie Frick' will never use Unix knowingly, > and the post-pubescent whacker will go for the wildest and > wackiest. Your market is really the individual who already knows Unix > or a beginner who knows something of the history. I'll let others decide about penguins and platypuses, but the daemon has a long history (see pages xvii to xxi of the Preface for more details). It has appeared on a number of very serious computer science books, notably "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX system", "The Design and Implementation of the 4.BSD system" (note the missing UNIX; thanks, lawyers), and "TCP/IP Illustrated" Volumes II and III. I feel honoured to be allowed to have it on my comparatively low-tech book. > Market tradition, maturity and stability. I have to support AIX and at > least half the code has a UCB copyright on it. Unix -- as it's known > today -- wouldn't exist without BSD! The same goes for System V. > My compliments to the FreeBSD team. To make this good a system that > runs on the whore's nightmare of contemporary PC hardware is a truly > remarkable achievement! Agreed. The FreeBSD team has done a remarkable job. Greg
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