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Date:      Fri, 1 May 1998 15:32:09 -0500
From:      Ray Seals <rayseals@midwestis.com>
To:        "'Garance A Drosihn'" <drosih@rpi.edu>, "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Slogan
Message-ID:  <01BD751A.69EA3C80.rayseals@midwestis.com>

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OK, how about:

The only wizard is the one behind the keyboard.

I just setup 3 NT servers.  I mentioned to the VP of IS (he sat with me to 
"learn" how to setup an NT server) that if a server OS needs to have 
wizards for simple admin. tasks, then you need new administrators.


-----Original Message-----
From:	Garance A Drosihn [SMTP:drosih@rpi.edu]
Sent:	Friday, May 01, 1998 11:58 AM
To:	freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:	Re: Slogan

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".

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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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