Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 02:56:50 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Don Morrison <dmorrisn@u.washington.edu> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's the 3.0 press release? Message-ID: <4.1.19981025025521.066b7ec0@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <3632A3DD.E2CE286D@u.washington.edu> References: <363040E9.42459888@gorean.org> <4.1.19981023090158.045edb20@mail.lariat.org>
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Not everything gets accepted. You must know how to write a press release that will generate interest and be used. And all publicity -- even negative publicity -- is good. (Though positive publicity is better.) Sounds silly, but this has been empirically tested. --Brett At 09:06 PM 10/24/98 -0700, Don Morrison wrote: >Bandwagon argument. You can throw anything into a pr machine if and >when you want to. > >Brett Glass wrote: >> >> You might note that every major news outlet is touting the release of >> the next Linux kernel, which is also not yet ripe and battle-tested. >> (The articles say this.) Failing to follow suit will hurt. >> >> --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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