Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 03:40:50 +1000 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@sarah.asstdc.com.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: imb@pni.ab.ca Subject: Re: Re[2]: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <199804101740.DAA05372@sarah.asstdc.com.au> In-Reply-To: <352E6110@smginc.com> from Adam Turoff at "Apr 10, 98 11:49:00 am"
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> Could we ask Walnut Creek to be the FreeBSD sugar daddy? Caldera, > RedHat and SuSE make money off of selling CDs but frequently drop off > a case of current or near-current CDs for user groups to give away. Walnut Creek already do this to some extent .. IMHO I'd much rather they'd be given to the groups they currently support, e.g. the ISOC Developing Countries Workshops held annually just prior to the INET conference*, than anyone else (thanks!). These guys may not have the "profile" that some seem to want FreeBSD to have in a commercial sense but, whilst I know that I run the coolest O/S currently available, I see no need to ram it down everyone's throat. The _fact_ that it's being used to hold an ever-increasing proportion of the 'net together and promoting both a stable and low-cost entry to 'net connecivity and development says way more than any egocentric splattering the 'net with unsubstantiated opinion, Michael * see http://www.isoc.org/inet98/net.shtml -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzHgkA0AAAEEAOz4+nIIfWB9TFN8d+4jJVhqidOKHbSRgueofsIJsvLjCfp1 3BwkDdvuKP4iR3DibhZ2Rq7dBiBS+qbTPWlCDn/zRakoqAzQaWNmb5e3ueAN/oIi mAEe3QQv0LdHnVDUja9ggWyQXFeMUDF7PkdpfM3AZpm/hjYk0hIU3H6iGYQlAAUR tCJtaWNoYWVsIGJ1dGxlciA8aW1iQGFzc3RkYy5jb20uYXU+iQCVAwUQMeCQDRIU 3H6iGYQlAQGWhwP/TqngBL222Vjk5ooQ3JcNJuq0iaToQ4wrJJMfxMUkL/IpXSyR fSkZFwmc8AuLdrDmKLOMr3MJ/MRMPyU16GbsGXwZO3h7oe5QgY974mudFbacqN7L IUPplXwH/sd+LrC/RnkuG3aqag4ahtKMxZZeOMcyTdshZiP64N3Q1aCH6020Gm1p Y2hhZWwgYnV0bGVyIDxwbmkuYWIuY2E+iQCVAwUQNSi00xIU3H6iGYQlAQEBcAQA ubM4FR0MCFsTUW3H5R29kI+g/JKcdjcGtrg9a1xoptSRYPSwtbsdD4Qqy0Bj3b7P EaC2pHwICfk1lftjvBZEnUprypxTrYrVbSSyF9SjAbpxUByRC0onRE6PNBXCiILv 55+TyNuD+sVEBDg7asnrHHRc+uLIuRfpiUr3MeaYhQ60H21pY2hhZWwgYnV0bGVy IDxpbWJAc2NndC5vei5hdT6JAJUDBRAyVeYmEhTcfqIZhCUBAYJ+BAC1qa5XNNuB LMAMu8l0+tcjYaeDPlSeCxGm39vw6R/MJGMyBoe8CD1IjCxDR4DD2kzJah/n58Pq nO+3fgoO1ENV9rcZE6M2+DZ8np82o3aeWwTHBlQ5LJW0hYlceFfLa1sXfXHLNrj1 jMyWOwgDOYiw5J9+7v3bRPnE7jRcWmeqbg== =YFui -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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