Upside: Stepping Out of Linux’s Shadow

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 16, 1999

“The penguin is really getting to me,” lamented BAFUG co-founder
Josef Grosch after the pizza had been devoured…”

“We’re trying to get a press release out about ‘Matrix,'” said
Jordan Hubbard, president of FreeBSD Inc. “The company that did the
special effects used 32 FreeBSD boxes, but nobody knows about it.
We need to find a way to get stories like that into the press.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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