Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:14:47 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: jack@diamond.xtalwind.net Cc: mark@quickweb.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... Message-ID: <199704191714.NAA20555@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970419022523.9302E-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net> (message from jack on Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:36:08 -0400 (EDT))
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>> But seriously, the CS departments are where FreeBSD needs to aim its >> marketing arrows at - learn from the Tobacco companies: get 'em hooked >> while they're young and they'll be yours for eternity. > Talk about deja vu all over again, didn't a company named AT&T do this > with a new product they had called Unix? Anyone know if the tactic > worked? <G> This was before my time, but I thought that was how Unix came into the popular market. People would use it to do learning, then research, then commercial applications. How come Linux is so well-known? What in its history caused it to take the spotlight? Happy hacking, piquan -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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