Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:10:20 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Message-ID: <13601.907434620@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:58:39 MDT." <4.1.19981003105717.041c3760@mail.lariat.org>
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> Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to cut into Walnut Creek's > sales, in effect hurting its current efforts. I suspect that the reason > there have not been alternative distributions (other than a token effort > by Cheap Bytes) is that people do not want to do this. I doubt that any businessman who saw a buck in this would have such qualms at all. There is already a very large set of individuals out there who feel not the slightest allegiance to Walnut Creek CDROM and would go out and start their own distribution in a heartbeat if it weren't also for the fact that they knew how much work it was. Again, you seem to have a lot of general accusations to make but nothing more concrete than "hire a marketing guy and give him some money" to make as a suggestion, a pretty poor condensation of what's got to be several pages of text by now. And yes, we have just recently hired a marketing guy and given him some money, as I already stated in another posting, and your unwillingness to even give him time to succeed before going for Walnut Creek CDROM's jugular does you no credit. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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