Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:01:29 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Unfurl <unfurl@dub.net> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? Message-ID: <19990204120129.Y1179@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990203135254.A13235@dub.net>; from Unfurl on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 01:52:55PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902021318050.7988-100000@o-o.org> <XFMail.990203093210.nicole@nmhtech.com> <19990203133655.C16919@mooseriver.com> <19990203135254.A13235@dub.net>
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On Wednesday, 3 February 1999 at 13:52:55 -0800, Unfurl wrote: > 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. I don't really see why this should be so, at least if the book is included. I've seen the things on sale at Borders, and they're mainly books. >> 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. OK, one more time: The man pages are going away. Amusingly, they came in in the first edition (which was really the second edition) in order to make the box feel heavier :-) >> In reality we do need another FreeBSD book. Greg can't be >> carrying the whole load for us. Agreed. We need several books. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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