Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:04:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sites running FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990415120226.10477C-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <37160550.699BF927@softweyr.com>
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Steve Price wrote: > > > > > Though not all commercial entities, what about the following? > > > > > > www.apache.org > > > www.daemonnews.org > > > www.dignus.com > > > www.freebsdrocks.com > > > www.geek-girl.com > > > www.hungry.com > > > www.openldap.org > > > www.unix-vs-nt.org > > > www.watson.com > > > > Utterly irrelevant from an advocacy point of view > > No, I'd say several of these might be relevant from an advocacy point > of view. Apache in particular has become a well-known "brand," and > their use of FreeBSD on their primary web server is quite a kudo. > The other non-FreeBSD sites fall into this same category, with the > caveat of being somewhat less well known. This would include dignus, > watson, and openldap certainly, and probably hungry as well. > > Sites that are run for BSD advocacy, or against Microsoft, are not > that surprising. ;^) I think I either mistyped or you misinterpretted: I was not referring to his list, but my unrelated comment on the list. :) I have watson.org, they have watson.com. Both run FreeBSD, and people probably have heard of watson.com although not watson.org. I agree entirely that prominent domain names running FreeBSD is an excellent advocacy point; it's even better when they slap a "FreeBSD" stamp on their front page, of course. Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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