Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 12:50:06 -0400 From: "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu> To: Greg McPherran <sw2@mediaone.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0108121246350.278179-100000@irix1.gl.umbc.edu> In-Reply-To: <004701c12344$975bab00$6501a8c0@ne.mediaone.net>
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Well I also just enjoyed reading your two emails and must say that if they were brilliant enough to think of FreeBSD, don't you think that atleast one of the brilliant fellows would have (if they were interested) marketed it a different way? Is marketed even a word? I am not sure...but that is why I am a user of FreeBSD versus someone trying to give advise about marketing...I am not very good at spelling...see I even spelled advice wrong in the sentence above this one! Sweet Dreams. Jason On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Greg McPherran wrote: > This is also to you Dave (Leimbach), > > I think it would increase sales in the store. I noticed that when browsin= g the alternative OS section, the box and mascot did not have the effect on= me that perhaps you want it to have. Others must also have the same reacti= on. I praise your team for the great work you do delivering an excellent OS= package. I was under the impression that FreeBSD also encouraged people to= purchase the boxed set to help support your team. > > 1.If you do encourage people to purchase the boxed set then I think my id= ea will significantly increase sales just from a marketing point of view. > > 2. If potential FreeBSD advocates like me don't like it - why wouldn't yo= u consider changing it just out of consideration for others? > > Dave, thanks for the fun response - certainly the people involved in Free= BSD are a great group. Now about that darn little devil :-) ...... And as= you seem to have suspected, I am a Christian (Roman Catholic). We Catholic= s are a bit more easy going when it comes to the well-intentioned use of sy= mbols. But it's still a turn-off :-) What is it with you open/free software= people - Richard Stallman has halos, a church of Emacs, saint Ignucious, a= shell called Bourne Again, and you have a devil for a mascot. Then you tel= l me religion should be kept separate from a OS? :-) I agree, or at least i= t should not poke fun or mock beliefs. I have had several converstaions wit= h Richard also :-) That's all I'm saying - let's get the religious symbolis= m out of the OSes. Alas, I see I am going to have to take either Linux of F= reeBSD and make my own distro. That is one great thing about free software = - you can do that. Now, which should I use FreeBSD or Linux? I lean towards= FreeBSD but Linux seems to have more drivers. For example, I have an HP 82= 30e external USB CD-Writer. Are there drivers for this for FreeBSD? Do you = know of any external USB CD-Writers that will work with FreeBSD? > > Many Thanks, > Greg > G. Jason Middleton ___________________________________________________________________________= ____ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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