Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 18:01:45 -0400 From: Don Tyson <tyson@stanfordalumni.org> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, tyson@alumni.stanford.org Subject: Re: leading questions for interview? Message-ID: <E17cYsE-0003uK-00@avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> of "Wed, 07 Aug 2002 13:11:02 EDT." <20020807131102.A48105@blackhelicopters.org>
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Stay positive, whatever you say. "Right tool for the right job, sometimes it's FreeBSD, sometimes it's Linux, sometimes (gasp) it's even WIN2K" and all
that, as many others have pointed out. Instead of, or in addition to, why *they* should use FreeBSD, why do *you* like it --
" what I like about it is --- blah blah blah" "what it does for me is, blah blah blah."
Don Tyson
>
> Guys,
>
> I'm going to be interviewed for a Net radio talk show, Computer Beat
> (www.compbeat.com) for my newly-released FreeBSD book.
>
> Much to my surprise, I have the opportunity to offer the interviewer
> some questions that I would like to be asked. While I have a couple
> boring, basic questions, I'm sure there are good questions out there.
>
> I'd like to take the opportunity to do some general FreeBSD advocacy,
> as fifteen minutes is a long time to talk about a book. ("It's good!
> Buy it!") I am drawing a blank on questions that would be of interest
> to a general audience. Everything I can think of is stuff like "How
> is SMP/MAC/KSE coming along, which would be of interest to people in
> the BSD crowd but not beyond.
>
> The audience is computer literate, but not necessarily BSD-literate.
>
> Any ideas, anyone?
>
> --
> Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons
>
> Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm
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