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Date:      Sun, 8 Jul 2001 15:14:47 +0200
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Richard Hodges <rh@matriplex.com>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral
Message-ID:  <20010708151447.C24461@mail.webmonster.de>
In-Reply-To: <3B47DA2F.D417E048@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:57:35PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10107071542110.13080-100000@mail.matriplex.com> <3B47DA2F.D417E048@softweyr.com>

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Wes Peters(wes@softweyr.com)@2001.07.07 21:57:35 +0000:
> Richard Hodges wrote:
> >=20
> > Sure, no argument there.  Taking Wes' suggestion, maybe there is an
> > opportunity in the "official" distribution distinction.  How about a
> > "certificate of authenticity" which costs the vendors $1 or $2 (or
> > whatever), and shows the customer that their choice of vendors helped
> > FreeBSD financially.  Incidentally, this certificate might also be a
> > selling point for those twisted individuals that just don't understand
> > free software :-)
>=20
> Now that's an idea, but it raises problems with shipping the "certificate=
s"
> across national borders, causing import duties, etc.  Maybe if we made
> the certificates in PostScript or even fig files.  ;^)

<div align=3Dtwisted>
=2E..make them pdf. stubborn marketing folks can only read one format ;-)
</div>

/k

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