Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:06:57 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Cc: advocacy@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: List of big names ... Message-ID: <20021203140503.L36076-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <200212021246.48260.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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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 ... > There are a couple of things that FreeBSD could do, short of selling its > soul through incorporation. One thing that might be interesting is to > make the Linux compatibility framework be LSB compliant (if possible). > Another is to set up a foundation, so there's at least some semblance of > hiearchical organization. Ummmm ... there used to be a FreeBSD Foundation, wasn't there? In fact, I thought that FreeBSD was incorporated as a non-profit as well? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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