Re: The case for FreeBSD

On Sunday 06 February 2005 10:12 am, Peter Schultz wrote:
> [SNIP]
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> > We should do a better PR job
>
> [SNIP]
>
> When I saw how much money the FreeBSD foundation has, I just about
> fell out of my chair.  Word of mouth works great, I'm always talking
> about FreeBSD like I'm sure many here do, but it just is not enough. 
> I'm no advertising guru so I don't know which angle would be most
> beneficial, but I'd say a basic introduction about the significance
> of BSD would go a long way towards attracting both users and
> developers.  The thing about FreeBSD is that once an administrator
> has set it up, there's no need for anyone to think about it.  If
> something goes wrong, more than likely there's hardware trouble, and
> once that's fixed BSD holds it all together again.
>
> Since it's superbowl sunday, take Joe Montana for instance.  If he
> would have just played football for fun, he still would have been the
> same person with the strength and mind of a superstar, but nobody
> outside of his circle would know anything about him.  However, since
> he was willing to put himself out there, even people who've never
> touched a football know who he is.
>
> Certainly I'm making this sound way too simplistic, but I think a
> well organized ad campaign would put FreeBSD out in the spotlight,
> and at the very least make an interesting and challenging project.
>
> Pete...
>
The good points about FreeBSD obscurity are:

CVSUP access
ftp download access

If *everyone* used FreeBSD the above points would suck and I'd have to 
move to a different OS.

-Mike