Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:10:48 -0700 From: Don Wilde <don@partsnow.com> To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Freeware] Message-ID: <353E8708.D887F73F@partsnow.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980422173144.13481S-100000@alive.znep.com>
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-- Marc Slemko wrote: > Go right ahead if you wish, however it is not wise to push for something > that, from what you have said you want to do, is not going to give you any > results that show FreeBSD or Apache in better light than other software. If you look at the hardware configs I chose, you'll note that NT will barely boot up in either configuration, especially the small one. That's my real target; Novell is a has-been in my eyes and in the business perception because of their many fumbles. Secondly, I am out to give FreeBSD exposure, whether it is the absolute performance champ or not. We're never going to convince all the bean-smashers in corporations to switch to freeware. They'll go kicking and screaming, you pry my cold dead fingers from my support contract, etc. However, the positive publicity of a "small furry mammals vs. T-Rex and Raptor" Challenge would do wonders for both FreeBSD and Linux, since both teams would do well, and the press would spin it in our favor. My big-picture goal is to convince just 1/10% (0.001) of Microsoft users to switch to FreeBSD, and 1/10 of them to learn to add to the code base. Consider what that does for our total numbers, and you'll see that we really win even if we don't "win". oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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