Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:19:03 -0800 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: advocacy@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: List of big names ... Message-ID: <200212031019.03352.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <20021203140503.L36076-100000@hub.org> References: <20021203140503.L36076-100000@hub.org>
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On Tuesday 03 December 2002 10:06 am, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Johnson David wrote: > > Do we need big names? Do we really need a user base that insists on > > using what the Joneses are using? The "everyone" that's falling behind > > Linux are just a handful of mega-corporations. When you look at small > > corporations and businesses, there are quite a few that use FreeBSD > > instead of Linux. My ISP is one of them. But announcing my ISP in a list > > to impress corporate bigwigs isn't going to impress anyone. > > Actually, you'd be surprised ... the argument that I just had thrown at me > dealt exactly with the fact that the co-lo and dedicated server ISPs out > there are supporting Linux, not FreeBSD ... Well, in that case there are thousands of ISPs using FreeBSD. I don't know who they all are, so I can't give you a list. My own ISP is www.meer.net, who just switched from IRIX. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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