Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:36:55 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> To: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com>, Licia <licia@o-o.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? Message-ID: <19990203133655.C16919@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990203093210.nicole@nmhtech.com>; from Nicole Harrington on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:32:10AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902021318050.7988-100000@o-o.org> <XFMail.990203093210.nicole@nmhtech.com>
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On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:32:10AM -0800, Nicole Harrington wrote: > > On 02-Feb-99 My Secret Spies Reported That Licia wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if Walnut Creek has a reseller program for FreeBSD > > merchandise? I'm going to try to convince some local stores to carry > > FreeBSD (they carry Linux, so maybe they'll listen? :) ) and it would be > > very handy if I could point them to some nice, clear, documentation on > > what is available to them and what they'd have to do themselves. > > > > > The frist thing we need to do is to convince them to offer a "boxed" product > like the Linux people do. It has become a staple of software these days. Just > having disks or Disks in the back of the book makes still look like Linux did > 6 years ago and even then I seem to remember boxed sets of Linux being > around. > > Microsucks doesn't win by having a better OS, just by telling everyone > it does and by making it Appear to be cool. > > We still "look like" the underdog, so that is were we may stay in the press > until that changes. 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. 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. In reality we do need another FreeBSD book. Greg can't be carrying the whole load for us. My $0.02 Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.0 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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