Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:11:22 -0500 From: Marina Brown <mbrown@btnaccess.com> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: John Von Essen <essenz@beck.quonix.net> Subject: Re: The Website Message-ID: <200403301611.22594.mbrown@btnaccess.com> In-Reply-To: <200403301116.51886.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> References: <002f01c4165c$a0c0d1d0$6f01a8c0@miter.local> <20040330101519.R2711@beck.quonix.net> <200403301116.51886.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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On Tuesday 30 March 2004 02:16 pm, Johnson David wrote: Last time i looked the FreeBSD site was clean and easy to navigate. I can not even think of a big corporate site that can claim that. Slick is not neccesarilly better. Marina > On Tuesday 30 March 2004 07:26 am, John Von Essen wrote: > > And... It doesn't help when they go to freebsd.org. It makes FreeBSD > > seem NON-enterprise. Personally, i think the site is fine, but Im a > > tech, not a CTO. Maybe, freebsd.com can be redesigned have a suse.com > > or redhat.com look-n-feel, and freebsd.org can retain - the developer > > community look-n-feel. > > I hate to say this, but FreeBSD is definitely NON-enterprise. That's > because we are not an enterprise! We are a non-commercial community > based operating system. > > There is no way we could have a Redhat or SuSE style site, because we > don't sell anything or provide paid support. We don't have "Business > Customers", commercial "solutions", shrink wrapped boxes, offer > certification, funds for professionally created graphics, etc. Some of > this could be provided by commercial vendors of FreeBSD (Daemonnews, > FreeBSD Mall), but not by FreeBSD itself. > > Actually, now that I look at it, the FreeBSD site follows the same basi= c > layout as the KDE site. Last I heard KDE was turning heads in the > enterprise... > > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org"
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