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Date:      Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:39:52 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        adrian@ubergeeks.com
Cc:        brett@lariat.org, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Maybe it's time to use Microsoft's tactics
Message-ID:  <199808012139.OAA25943@usr07.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980801170332.8439C-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> from "ADRIAN Filipi-Martin" at Aug 1, 98 05:04:16 pm

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> > Every time an article mentions Linux and not FreeBSD, or
> > mentions problems with NT, the author should be contacted with an
> > admonishment to try FreeBSD. On the other hand, authors who DO mention
> > FreeBSD should be encouraged to do more of it. The effort could be
> > organized through this list.
> 
> 	Something like this might work if it were possible to include
> sample CD's.  Just a thought.  I'm guessing it would be to WC's advantage
> to support something like this.

If you have a frisbee you want to throw, make sure you are not in a
full parking lot before you yell "watch this!".

In other words, pick only the battles where you are sure you are
going to win.  It would be a spectacular error to find an article
about a situation where NT and Linux do poorly, and insist the
author try FreeBSD, only to have it do even more poorly.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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