Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:35:15 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux emulation != FreeBSD sale (was Re: Netscape browser) Message-ID: <4.1.19990319113326.00997d90@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903191146080.22761-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903191002060.24541-100000@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org>
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At 11:59 AM 3/19/99 -0600, Steve Price wrote: >Actualy I was thinking more along the lines of making them >(the vendors) aware that some of their sales/downloads were >being used on FreeBSD. Good luck! Marketing people are not the brightest of folk. All they'll see is, "We sold XX copies of the Linux version; I guess Linux is popular. No reason to support those losers running FreeBSD." This is what happened with OS/2, and nothing that was done either by IBM or by user advocates could stop it. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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