From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 20:07:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4885137B401 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 20:07:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web13407.mail.yahoo.com (web13407.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF40C43F85 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 20:07:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030517030711.55891.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.91.197.199] by web13407.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 17 May 2003 04:07:11 BST Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 04:07:11 +0100 (BST) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: a public relations opportunity for BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 03:07:12 -0000 To many people (Including Brian Kernighan), the SCO vs IBM case brought old memories from the BSD vs UNIX case. In the later case linux emerged so I tend to agree there is nothing to be happy about but I it is true that there is a good good PR opportunity there. Some miscellaneous thoughts I had... What will be the upgrade path for SCO's Linux users? What will IBM use to complete AIX now that their UNIX license will be revoked? For now I think both companies will run far away from free software, but FreeBSD is a viable option on both cases and if we had more people pointing our fundamental advantages we could see BSD growing even more. just my $0.02 Pedro. __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer