From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 22 11:31:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10194 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:31:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cs.uoregon.edu (nis81.cs.uoregon.edu [128.223.8.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10168 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:31:12 GMT (envelope-from wcarey@cs.uoregon.edu) Received: from statix.cs.uoregon.edu (wcarey@statix.cs.uoregon.edu [128.223.4.84]) by cs.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA04530; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:29:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Woody Carey To: Don Wilde cc: Greg Lehey , dg@root.com, Mark Ovens , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An idea for promoting FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <353DFE54.5BDF9477@ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Don Wilde wrote: [snip] > be workable. Remember, we're not worried about them being able to USE > BSD, we're only concerned with showing them how powerful it is. For [snip] I don't think I am understanding what you are suggesting here. IMHO we should be very concerned about people Using FBSD, not just knowing that it is powerful. What audience is this for? Surely a physicist would not be concerned with showing Joe User how powerful their linear particle accelerator is? Why try to make something complicated appear simple to lure people in? Perhaps this is not quite on topic. I apologize if I have mis-read something. woody To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message