From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 14 23:21:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16948 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:21:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16941 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:21:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23203; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:21:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd023179; Mon Feb 15 00:21:03 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA10143; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:20:59 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902150720.AAA10143@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Windows Refund Day: Watch out for Linux tactics To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:20:58 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, kline@tera.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990214114417.03fa0480@mail.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Feb 14, 99 11:59:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >*NOTE* This has been moved to chat. > > > >BAFUG (Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group) is also involved in this. BAFUG has > >been coordating the Linux people here in the Bay Area to pull this > >off. > > And the Linux people are doing everything in their power to make sure > that the public thinks EVERYONE there is a Linux user. Note that the > press report you quoted mentions ONLY Linux! My belief is that they > intend to play the users of other operating systems who show up for > patsies -- use them to strengthen the impression that everyone at > the event uses Linux, and only Linux. So do what I'm going to do: show up in your FreeBSD T-shirt. It doesn't matter if you are actually there to get a refund or not; there's no way to tell that from the other side of the camera. > BAFUG should make DARN sure that the press knows it's there. Better > bring BIG banners with "FreeBSD" and the daemon logo displayed > prominently -- not to mention disks, buttons, and T-shirts, if possible. Tell Jordan. He has that stuff for the trade shows. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message