Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:52:55 -0800 From: Unfurl <unfurl@dub.net> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? Message-ID: <19990203135254.A13235@dub.net> In-Reply-To: <19990203133655.C16919@mooseriver.com>; from Josef Grosch on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 01:36:55PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902021318050.7988-100000@o-o.org> <XFMail.990203093210.nicole@nmhtech.com> <19990203133655.C16919@mooseriver.com>
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On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 01:36:55PM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:32:10AM -0800, Nicole Harrington wrote: > I agree. A nice box product looks like a "legitimate" product. At one point > several years ago Walnut Creek was shipping just such a package for > FreeBSD. I found several Barnes & Nobles in Chicago carrying this. Can't > say what happened to it. Walnut Creek should bring back the box package to > augment their product line. It should look like, (digging in my box of > microsludge software), Eudora Pro. Lets see.... we have a "quick start > guide", an eudora pro cdrom, a technical support information paper with all > sorts of important numbers (I secretly think they are just random numbers), > an advertisement for cvideo-mail, "Attach full motion video and sound to > your e-mail" ugh!, a manul, and a registration card. I have never seen this package but that sounds liek a great idea. I think that because many of the Linux distros have this kind of packaging they are more able to sell products in place like B&n or Borders. > Now, I can hear Jordan chanting his mantra, "great, send me the diffs", but > we have all this stuff. It would just take a marketing person a few weeks to > whip this into a nice spiffy product. The only stumbling block is our old > problem, the manual. We could package Greg Leheys' book without the freaking > man pages. No cut on Greg, but this would be quite welcome. I like and use the front half of my book. I never use and frequently curse the dead weight of the man pages. I can see their value to the first time installer but I would rather have a slimmer, cheaper book made up of just the first half. > In reality we do need another FreeBSD book. Greg can't be > carrying the whole load for us. > > > My $0.02 My $0.015 -Bill -- unfurl@dub.net - This is a munition. Fight Back! #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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