Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 12:58:11 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slogan Message-ID: <v04011715b16fae1b9b50@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <01BD74E7.CEADB580.rayseals@midwestis.com>
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At 9:59 AM -0500 5/1/98, Ray Seals wrote: >Some ideas on a slogan: > > Implementing is more important than budgeting. > > When power is more important than price. Plausible, although it implies that FreeBSD is pricey or that it would break your budget. :-) In thinking why I prefer options like freebsd or linux, I'd think the key is the open-source policy. If there is a bug I need to fix for my company, I can just do it, or contract out to have someone fix it. If there's a bug in WindowsXX, I have to beg Microsoft to fix it, and my bug (or requested feature) will be priority 100 on a long list of things that millions of people are asking Microsoft for. I'm not quite sure how to shrink that into a 10-second catchy slogan. I'm inclined towards ads like the suburu one. Something like "You paid a whole lot more for that operating system, but at least your priorities will be insignificant to the company you bought it from". I can just imagine Microsoft decending on us with about 8,000 lawyers over that one... Perhaps "When you have the source, you get to set your own priorities for what gets done next". --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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