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Date:      Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:20:58 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Cc:        jgrosch@mooseriver.com, kline@tera.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Windows Refund Day: Watch out for Linux tactics
Message-ID:  <199902150720.AAA10143@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990214114417.03fa0480@mail.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Feb 14, 99 11:59:58 am

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> >*NOTE* This has been moved to chat.
> >
> >BAFUG (Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group) is also involved in this. BAFUG has
> >been coordating the Linux people here in the Bay Area to pull this
> >off. 
> 
> And the Linux people are doing everything in their power to make sure
> that the public thinks EVERYONE there is a Linux user. Note that the
> press report you quoted mentions ONLY Linux! My belief is that they 
> intend to play the users of other operating systems who show up for 
> patsies -- use them to strengthen the impression that everyone at
> the event uses Linux, and only Linux.

So do what I'm going to do: show up in your FreeBSD T-shirt.  It
doesn't matter if you are actually there to get a refund or not;
there's no way to tell that from the other side of the camera.


> BAFUG should make DARN sure that the press knows it's there. Better
> bring BIG banners with "FreeBSD" and the daemon logo displayed
> prominently -- not to mention disks, buttons, and T-shirts, if possible. 

Tell Jordan.  He has that stuff for the trade shows.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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