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Date:      Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:55:56 -0400
From:      "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
To:        Francisco Reyes <reyesf@newsguy.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: branding
Message-ID:  <19980801125556.A20894@snark.thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808011634.JAA06160@newsguy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 12:34:39PM -0400
References:  <199808011634.JAA06160@newsguy.com>

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Francisco Reyes <reyesf@newsguy.com>:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:30:43 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 
> >1. Send more information on BSD-based products that are *making money*,
> >that will tell a convincing story to people who are suits not hackers.
> 
> How about changing that to Open source which is currently used in
> high profile companies.
> 
> By "used" I don't mind they have a test box in a dusty corner. I mean
> companies like Yahoo which run their business (all their http servers
> with FreeBSD) on Open Source programs.

I'm willing to carry stuff like this.  Yahoo's case study is already on
the site.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything
which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
	-- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Government"

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