Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 19:44:48 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <rsm@acm.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments Message-ID: <19990505194448.11886@goatsucker.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.37.19990505102722.00c748f0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:54:52AM -0600 References: <4.2.0.37.19990504223819.00c28c30@localhost> <199905041651.MAA23567@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905042357120.402-100000@insomnia.local.net> <4.2.0.37.19990504223819.00c28c30@localhost> <19990505081901.B24172@ontario.mooseriver.com> <4.2.0.37.19990505102722.00c748f0@localhost>
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On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:54:52AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > Again, how would you suggest that I invest this massive amount of time and > effort (and it would be massive; there's a LOT of work to do and many things > to UNdo) and not go broke? While I *would* like to see FreeBSD succeed, I > certainly couldn't martyr myself financially for it. Brett, I don't think anyone's expecting you to do *everything* (most of us have lives too, you know :-) I seem to remember -- I'm not online to check this right now, so please excuse any dumb mistakes here -- that there was a list of advocacy tasks on the 'official' site (advocacy.freebsd.org?) I guess you could do worse than pick something off there and, erm, start advocating... Your personal crusade seems to be getting commercial vendors to support FreeBSD instead of/in addition to that Penguin OS; maybe you could select someone who's already shown some interest in supporting 'alternative' OSes (Corel? Netscape?) and go to work on them? If you could get Corel to commit to a native FreeBSD port of WordPerfect, I for one would be willing to give them money in advance to make sure it happened. Feel free to tell them that, if you can get anyone there to listen to you. Granted, even that will take up a bunch of time, but hopefully not too much cash (neither of which I have much of right now, so I can sympathise with your position). Comments? Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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