From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 22:54:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D091B16A4CE; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:54:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544D843D62; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:54:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I7W0098ZVNADH@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de>; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:54:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:54:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.92])iASMsjgT013313; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:54:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))(Postfix) with ESMTP id 7876528442; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:54:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 763A822859; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:54:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:54:39 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <20041126221010.GQ37244@submonkey.net> To: Ceri Davies , Murray Stokely , freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <20041128225438.GA16796@unixpages.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <200411261350.iAQDoGeJ091302@freefall.freebsd.org> <20041126221010.GQ37244@submonkey.net> Subject: Re: www/74407: Please add us to the list of FreeBSD vendors on freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:54:49 -0000 --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:10:10PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 01:06:35PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 01:50:16PM +0000, Christian Brueffer wrote: > > > > www.cheeplinux.com is a UK based website selling the latest stable= & cutt=3D > > > ing edge FreeBSD software. Orders are shipped same-day worldwide. > > > > >How-To-Repeat: > > > > =3D20 > > > =20 > > > I assume you want to be listet in 'CD and DVD Sets' section of the > > > 'Obtaining FreeBSD' handbook appendix? > > > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.h= tml) > > > =20 > > > If so, please submit an entry similar to the other ones listed. > >=20 > > Should we at least be asking these companies what they are doing for > > the FreeBSD Community? Do we really want to support a company called > > cheaplinux.com and dilute the mindshare of supporting FreeBSD vendors? > > We never used to list companies like cheapbytes.com in the past, but > > that seems to have changed in the past 2 years. We no longer have a > > single official vendor, but cheaplinux.com is no daemonnews or > > freebsdmall. >=20 > I think the question comes down to whether we want to list vendors or > not. If it's a requirement that you contribute Fixnum % of your takings > to the FF (or whatever), then we should say so and everyone will know > where they stand. Or we should get an official vendor. There is no > way to make the call otherwise. >=20 That's the question indeed. Both ways have it's pros and cons. In the past vendors just got added when they requested it, so I continued this way. I don't really have an opinion on which way to choose... - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBqlcubHYXjKDtmC0RAg67AKCwdgJm8o80n960xTeBGEyroRVUCgCfUYM6 a76JTvcLziUuck6A8ATJ/D0= =FlFN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--