From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 16 10:31:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA04963 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:31:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from caliban.dihelix.com (caliban.mrtc.org [199.4.33.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA04954 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:31:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from langfod@localhost) by caliban.dihelix.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) id IAA01750; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:30:39 -1000 (HST) Message-Id: <199701161830.IAA01750@caliban.dihelix.com> Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation tools...) In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970116123959.00a85ce0@etinc.com> from dennis at "Jan 16, 97 12:40:02 pm" To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:30:39 -1000 (HST) Cc: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, hackers@freebsd.org From: "David Langford" X-blank-line: This space intentionaly left blank. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>I talked to a German journalist at a trade show last year (from iX, >>one of the better UNIX rags here), and basically told him that they >>had too much of a Linux bent. His reply was basically "we can't publish >>articles we don't have." > >Magazines won't publish anything unless they think that it is of interest >to their customers. >You have to GENERATE interest...articles just keep it going and accelerate it. > >Magazines are a business; don't let them try to tell you that there's a >separation of >editorial decision making and advertising dollars. You're not going to get >an article >published about how FreeBSD blows the doors off of SCO if they're getting >big dollars >from them. > >Dennis True but you can use this to your advantage in many cases just by sharing experices rather than trying to make a statement. The articles dont have to be about "how great FreeBSD is". Many of the articles I have seen about Linux are simply of the type "I had this problem and solved it with these tools." A nifty one may be "How I saved my company from evil Internet hackers and usage charges using a PC based bandwidth managed T1 router. (Oh yeah it was running FreeBSD)" (sorry Dennis- dont mean that to pick on you :) We have done a number of conferences here that needed multiple web browsers going. Between short notice, GTE, and the fact that most hotel are in the boonies(sp?) here getting high speed lines is tough. But in a day we cobbled together 386/486 PC a caching web server and a FreeBSD PPP modem router. Users at the conference were impressed with our T1 like performance :) If we just _mention_ that FreeBSD helped our businnes in some way it would go a long way in getting the word out that FreeBSD is a useful tool. -David Langford langfod@dihelix.com