I think it's all just political. I'm sure if the BSDs carried the GPL
license that all the linux-loving people that would argue to their grave
would agree.

deep down inside, does it really matter what those people think? They are a
small vocal minority. concentration on the technology of the product and
it's performance is what people care about.
Let's not forget why linux is so popular--it had corporate backing and
funding back in the day (the FSF used to be against corp. involvement to my
understanding). it is popular because it's supported and has a lot of
drivers. nothing more in my opinion. I'm certain if NetBSD had that much
support it would probably be a major contender.

I use em all, linux, freebsd, netbsd, etc..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Chamandy" <bsdfreak@gmail.com>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>; <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: We have an image problem...


> On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:40:19 -0500, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
wrote:
> >
> > Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> writes:
> > > But that's enough "we should"... Maybe our PR department needs
> > > volunteers.
> >
> > It always does.
>
> I think Linus is, as some have suggested, just a FUD machine.  He'll
> bash anything that doesn't have his name on it, so to speak.  I myself
> try to put as much positive PR about NetBSD on my site
> (www.bsdfreak.org), which has a considerable audience.  Sending a
> letter to the editor is a fantastic idea (that Jeremy mentioned),
>
> I also think we all need to spend some time going on the offense and
> working the media.  Writing articles for trade publications,
> newsletters, giving interviews (where invited), even consider public
> speaking.  Noone necessarily needs to be "sold" on an operating
> system, but I don't think that's really what good PR is about.
> Instead, I think it's about having people connect the name to a
> positive message, the logo to what it stands for and hopefully have
> their idea of NetBSD be accurate instead of distorted and negative.
>
> The interview with the NetBSD developers on NewsForge
> (http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/22/1954233&tid=8&tid=29)
> was a *very* good thing, for example.
>
> >
> > Perry
> >
>
>
> --
> Best wishes,
>
> Alexander G. Chamandy
> Webmaster
> www.bsdfreak.org
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>