Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 15:58:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Michael Doyle <relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the masses? Message-ID: <XFMail.000405155819.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000404131102.007e1660@199.107.2.1>
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On 04-Apr-00 Michael Doyle wrote: > I suggested a magazine cover disk offering about a year ago. > The Disk 1 from the current 4-disk set is now even more suitable > than it was a year ago. (It has almost all the apps you need > for a useful server - at least all the ones I use for my > production servers.) > Does this infer copyright implications? Should we have to 'roll our own' cd or is it OK to use disk1? It is on the web nowadays anyway. > Like you, I'm an administrator - I use FreeBSD on some of my servers > in work (I run the PC Network for a charity, and I have a mix of NT > and FreeBSD servers. I don't do any NT advocacy :-) > > I think the problem is as much one of finding a magazine prepared > to cary FreeBSD as anything else - the only magazines I have seen > seem firmly limited to Linux if they bother mentioning a non Microsoft > product at all. Here they all seem to come from a central source: idg.se has half a dozen of them. Perhaps they have separate staffs but I would not be surprised if the general policies re open software etc are the same... > > I have got to the point where I have stopped buying the paper magazines > unless they have a particularly good cover disk - the contents of all > the ones on sale in Ireland are no more than extended advertisments. A growing tendency here to lately:( ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.4 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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