Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:56:02 -0600 (CST) From: Licia <licia@o-o.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904011850430.26408-100000@o-o.org> In-Reply-To: <36FC12E0.691ECF1D@softweyr.com>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Licia wrote: > > > > On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > We had originally discussed an entire web section for branded products, > > > with click-through to their site(s), to cross-advertise the availability > > > of FreeBSD branded products. We would offer this page as a target for > > > their products sites as well. I imagine FreeBSD Mall will be very > > > interested in carrying commercial products that are FreeBSD branded as > > > well, if suitable financial arrangements can be agreed upon. > > > > > > > I think that is a good idea as well. Not what I meant by banner, but still a > > very good idea. Would there be any interest in a similar section for freeware > > authors who support FreeBSD and apply the branding to their efforts? > > In our original discussion, the products were sorted by "Native FreeBSD" > vs. "Emulated", rather than price tags. A native port of Gnome would get > "higher" billing than a Linux version of DB2, as it should. ;^) > So freeware authors would be able to get listed in the branded software area on the web site? Would there be criterion on size/quality of a branded project, or could someone write a clone of echo and get listed? :) > A relatively good example of how to do something like this is BeWare. Check > out http://www.be.com and click on the BeWare link. We could offer the > commercial firms additional incentives through FreeBSD Mall, giving them > targeted exposure to interested buyers. > (nods) an interesting site, and I do think we could learn a lot from it. My main concern isn't the commercial developers though. As our numbers grow and FreeBSD becomes better known, such support is nearly inevitable I think. I worry more about keeping FreeBSD 'in the loop' as far as freeware support, and enticing people to use FreeBSD as a native development platform, any thoughts on how the branding effort could be used there? [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/~licia/ ] [ Alias : Ladywolf] [ Telnet to o-o.org and log in as bbs ] [ ssh -l bbs -C o-o.org ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] main(){int num[4]={1768122732,762265697,1919889007,103};printf("%s\n",num);} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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