Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:52:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian McGroarty <bvmcg@yahoo.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a pr Message-ID: <19990806225200.23526.rocketmail@web1006.mail.yahoo.com>
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them: Ah, sounds good. Where do I pick up a copy? Humor me here and assume they don't have a T1 or cablemodem, as is the case with virtually all prospective users. Next comes the discussion about how there's this one place in Naperville, about two hours away, or how you can custom order it from Borders or get it mail-order from this place called Walnut Creek. Then come the explanations of why it's worth waiting even though they can pick up Linux today at five different places within walking distance. I keep spare CDs on hand to give out to friends and co-workers. Otherwise, by this point you sound like a religious zealot. --- Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > On 6 Aug 99, at 15:00, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > The existing Walnut Creek packaging has all the pinache of > your > > average clip art collection. You don't see this as a major > > problem where attracting new users and realizing new > > distribution channels is concerned? > > me: "Oh, you're going to put a new firewall?... hmm, have you > considered > ipfilter running on FreeBSD?" > > them: "What?" > > me: "ipfilter running on FreeBSD?" > > them: "What's FreeBSD?" _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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