Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 04:52:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: perhaps@yes.no, md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM image Message-ID: <199709190452.VAA09212@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <16720.874627365@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 18, 97 05:02:45 pm
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> As far as Walnut Creek CDROM is concerned, anything which increases > the name recognition and installed base of FreeBSD is a good thing and > to be encouraged - they know that they can't get FreeBSD into every > possible niche market by themselves and they've even tried to get > people in China to pirate the FreeBSD CD in hopes that it would spread > all over the country like wildfire or something, but no such luck so > far. ;-) If you get an opportunity... Rent/Buy: Tenchi & Friends Special Pretty Sammy 2 Revenge of The Imperial Electronic Brain (It's a Tenchi Muyo series Anime video) In it, Biff Standard, president of STANDARD Software, Inc. is trying to standardize the world. Sure, you have to pay for standards in reduced speed, but it's for the good of mankind. Tenchi and friends are opposed to Biff; Tenchi goes so far as to buy a black-market CDROM (of "MACH 9", I think) so that he can run a Karioke program that Biff's OS is two slow to run. I'm pretty sure that "Biff" was a kind translation of a soft pronunciation of "Bill" (my copy is in Japanese). Anyway, it's an amusing metaphor on the rationalization of a fragmented Japanese computer market as being a "good thing", and very pro-free-OS (albiet "MACH 9"). >From the looks of things, it shouldn't be that hard to get that area of the world copying and selling FreeBSD. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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