Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:53:09 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca Cc: dennis@etinc.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970118134922.29426I-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199701181612.LAA28366@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca wrote: > In Email, dennis <dennis@etinc.com> wrote: > > > > You need to align yourself with commercial vendors. Bookstores > > aren't going to get you what you want, you need good products that run > > FreeBSD. > > Are you suggesting we try to convince IBM to sell all their new Aptivas > with FreeBSD? > Don't laugh. How many ppl out there are aligned in some way with a hardware vendor? I have a friend of mine in London, Ont that currently works in a computer store...why not offer an install of FreeBSD as part of the sale? Maybe even go so far as to offer to configure ijppp to auto-dial to your local provider? Then again, have it dual-boot so that one still have their MicroSloth products still available...it costs the vendor nothing ot install FreeBSD, and might actually make them more money, since, in a dual-boot situation, you're really going ot need more disk space, no? :) Then again, as products like Wine become more stable...you won't even need to go the dual-boot direction :)
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