Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:18:24 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Tim Clewlow" <tim1timau@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall Message-ID: <ef10de9a0703140818w23258c48kb763457481225144@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070314124606.26320.qmail@web50309.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <45F6E0AB.1080105@mac.com> <20070314124606.26320.qmail@web50309.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On 3/14/07, Tim Clewlow <tim1timau@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com> wrote: > > > Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us > > ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and > > looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future. > > > > It can't hurt anyway :) > > > > http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey > > > > > > I believe the point of the OP is to raise awareness of FreeBSD in the dell > survey - so choosing option f and then typing in FreeBSD would seem to be the > way to do this. > > Wrong time wrong place. Not voting for Ubuntu/Debian is the same as voting against it. In this respect it can hurt us very much. Why throw away your vote when you could vote for a group with the same philosophical and political views as us? You need to realize that the survey statistician is going to throw out the votes for FreeBSD.
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