Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:14:10 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux to be deployed in Mexican schools; Where was FreeBSD? Message-ID: <48004.911945650@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:59:58 MST." <4.1.19981124135919.06c8e850@127.0.0.1>
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> http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/16107.html FreeBSD probably wasn't on their radar. More helpful indeed would any suggestions on your part (and possibly organizational efforts) on what it takes to get on mexican radar screens. As is my usual gripe in advocacy, what we really need around here aren't a bunch of firemen who arrive at the scene of the fire well after it has already consumed the building and stand around saying meaningful things like "This was a fire! It appears to have burned down the building! Fires are bad, someone should do something." Such firemen are obviously of no use at all and should probably go into less challenging professions like chicken inspection or lavatory maintenance. What we need are firemen who actually arrive in time to have a meaningful affect on fires *as they are happening* or can turn practical expertise towards preventing fires in the first place. :-) In this specific case, what would have constituted attacking the fire rather than the ashes would have been to let me know about this well before the selection process took place so that I could have sent these folks some evaluation CDs and possibly a book or two. I send literally tens of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise to schools and other educational programs every year and will continue to do so, but people still have to tell me where to send them since I'm not psychic here, folks! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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