Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:48:24 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Where is FreeBSD going? Message-ID: <20040106234532.L32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040106163408.87887d-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, David Schwartz wrote: > > > FreeBSD does need more advocacy if it wants to get the kind of > > visibility and credibility that Linux has in the public perception. > > Frankly, I'm kind of baffled that it doesn't. I've always found the two > > OSes more or less interchangeable and tend to install whichever one > > whose CD I can find first. > > The best advocacy FreeBSD can get is to have happy users explain to the > rest of the world how much they like our cool aid. Or rather, one of the > greatest contributions end-users can make to FreeBSD is to tell their > friends (and then help them get up and going :-). It's also one of the > greatest compliments you can give. Developers are typically fairly bad at > advocacy, and perhaps it's better that the developers work on what they're > good at (since it always seems a few more hands can help). So if you (in > the general sense, not you specifically) like FreeBSD, and feel like > documentation or code aren't your fortes, go out and give a talk at your > local Linux user group about FreeBSD. Or explain to the people at your > company that they could go out and buy Windows, Solaris, or Linux with > support, or they could rely on your own expertise in-house and get the job > done at a fraction of the cost. > i'm not quite sure this is a replacement for a postgersql / gnome / openoffice style marketing team though. > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research >
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