From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Aug 1 14:40:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24477 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 14:40:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24472 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 14:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20385; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 14:40:22 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd020354; Sat Aug 1 14:40:12 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA25943; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 14:39:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808012139.OAA25943@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Maybe it's time to use Microsoft's tactics To: adrian@ubergeeks.com Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:39:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "ADRIAN Filipi-Martin" at Aug 1, 98 05:04:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message