From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 18 09:54:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA21961 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:54:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-09.netcom.ca [207.181.94.73]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA21956 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:54:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.4/8.8.2) with SMTP id NAA06152; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:53:09 -0400 (AST) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:53:09 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca cc: dennis@etinc.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation In-Reply-To: <199701181612.LAA28366@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca wrote: > In Email, dennis 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 :)