FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve

[Vadim Goncharov]

Hi Milo Hyson! 

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:42:23 -0700; Milo Hyson wrote about 'Re: FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve':

>>> walking all over the competition.  Buzz is a critical part of selling ideas in 
>>> open source (for better or worse), and there's no reason we can't play in that 
>>> game a bit while maintaining our boring and staid personalities :-).
>> 
>> Sure. And taking surveys into account, we could just simply summarize:
>> FreeBSD needs marketing :-)
>
> That begs the question of to whom FreeBSD should be marketed. Home users?
> Small-office admins? Datacenter admins? Embedded developers?

Not quite. I think there are two questions, though related to each other.

One is "who is FreeBSD target user". This influences "global" development
decisions, such as roadmaps, what should sit in the base system, etc.

The other is "which users to listen to and whom to advertise to", that is,
marketing. And this doesn't need clear boundaries: e.g. we should listen to
all our current users just to not lose the userbase. Later this will be
ponetntial users, and so on.

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