Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:50:48 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows Refund Day: Watch out for Linux tactics Message-ID: <199902142050.MAA05249@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:30:06 MST." <4.1.19990214132540.00a5f4b0@mail.lariat.org>
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> At 12:22 PM 2/14/99 -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > >I will not be a bad idea if FreeBSD folks decide to show which I doubt > >for they love to hang out on the FreeBSD mailing lists to indeed > >wear a FreeBSD T-Shirt --- if you have one of course 8) > > I think that's a great idea. Are FreeBSD buttons available? (If not, > it should be easy to take some readily available artwork and make some.) Not yet. I'm thinking I really ought to go, even though Vacaville is a damn long way to come from. I'll go through the WC offices and grab some promo stuff (stickers are my favorite tool), but I don't think I could manage tshirts or hats at this point. I'll see what I can do - I would hope that not too many prospective FreeBSD hat-orderes would mind that their hats had been preworn for an hour or two in a major protest. > But it's still important to talk directly to the press. Many of the > press people there (especially those who are NOT from computer trade > pubs) won't know that a picture of Chuck The Besneakered Daemon represents > something other than Linux. (They may even mistakenly believe that > it represents Microsoft and/or Bill Gates.) They'd better make the > point that FreeBSD is the "other, better free UNIX." Or, again, they'll > be seen as supporting Linux and will have been played for fools. Brett - will _you_ be there? For all your irritation, you know how to handle these people, as well as spot them. Remember that most of us are tech types; give us a break. I'll be at the Oakland staging area I expect. (Cursing that we don't have the Daemon Babe outfits yet...) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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