[Info-vax] systemd boycott call was: Re: Why so much Unix envy?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <8491f4c5-021f-4deb-a223-188092c65f60 at googlegroups.com>,
	terry+googleblog at tmk.com writes:
> On Thursday, September 11, 2014 8:12:58 AM UTC-4, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> I have always found the lack of BSD dominance to be caused by something
>> everyone here is already very familiar with.  Lack of marketing.  Ever
>> see a BSD magazine?  Ever see a BSD conference? (Well, we used to have
>> USENIX but that was never specifically BSD and I expect what is left of
>> it is mostly Linux today.)
> 
> There is http://bsdmag.org, but they seem to be getting a little strange[r] lately.

Let me know when you see it in the newsstands at the airport where
CIO/CTO's buy the rags their going read on the way to the other coast.

> 
> For conferences, take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/events

Hmmm..  8 total for 2014,  compared to 30 for Linux.  And some of them
are 3, 2 and yes, three of them were only 1 day.  Who is going to travel
more than an hour or two for a 1 day "conference"?  Although, one of was
in a bar.  :-)

Sigh....

bill

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