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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 

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