Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:44:42 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: mahmoud hamdy <mahmoud_hamdy@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd certified office Message-ID: <3EA01D6A.1040302@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20030418151945.33059.qmail@web41605.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030418151945.33059.qmail@web41605.mail.yahoo.com>
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mahmoud hamdy wrote: > Dear Sir, > Sorry i miss typied > but even so what is the possibility to become an > office for Freebsd in Egypt There are many things you need to understand: First off ... I am not a laywer: if you want real legal advice, contact a lawyer. The following are my non-professional opinions/experience. FreeBSD is volunteer developed. Whether or not you become an "office" depends on what you mean by that. If you wish to distribute and/or support FreeBSD in your area, there are no requirements (that I'm aware of) for doing so. Just start doing so. If you wish to become an "official" mirror site for the FreeBSD software, you'll need to contact hostmaster@freebsd.org and coordinate with him. There's nothing preventing you from becomming an an unoffical mirror in the meantime. If you set yourself up supporting FreeBSD and/or mirroring the FreeBSD web site, you can get listed by contacting webmaster@freebsd.org If you want to resell FreeBSD CDs, you can either purchase them from a distributer, or download the images and burn your own CDs. The bottom of this page lists "official" distributor that you can purchase CDs from: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html And this page lists sites where you can download CD images from: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html If you end up with a successful business doing this, you'll be thought of much better in the FreeBSD community by donating some of your success back to the FreeBSD project via the FreeBSD Foundation (www.freebsdfoundation.org) Starting a business based on FreeBSD is encouraged and is the way that FreeBSD exists. Since FreeBSD is non-profit, volunteer based, most of the money available to the project comes from people who are able to make a living using FreeBSD and donate something back to the project (whether it be developing software or donating money) questions@freebsd.org is a mailing list. When you send an email to this list is it received by thousands of subscribers who are interested in FreeBSD. There are other mailing lists, some more specific. See the mailin list section of the web site for more information: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list Since it appears that English is not your primary language, you may find a translation that is easier for you to read. Try here: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#web Hopefully, information has been translated to your native language. Once you have a better idea of what you're trying to do, don't hesitate to email this list again with more specific questions. (or email a list that is for a language that you are more comfortable with, it it exists) Good luck! > --- Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > >>mahmoud hamdy wrote: >> >>>Dear Sir, >>>I wander about the possibility to be a certified >>>office ( tanning, selling and support ) for >> >>mandrake >> >>>Linux in Egypt >> >>I don't understand what you're asking. >> >>Do you realize that Linux and FreeBSD are not the >>same thing? >> >>I think you need to understand what you want a >>little better. >> >>-- >>Bill Moran >>Potential Technologies >>http://www.potentialtech.com >> > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo > http://search.yahoo.com > > -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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