From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jun 23 23:55:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480A937BB69; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15219; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:55:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39545BA5.2D404D68@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:56:37 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: Joe.Warner@smed.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Manager's response re: FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Hamell wrote: > > > are all using it, you will need to find a way to sing its praises to > > corporate in a way that won't offend any entrenched interests. If you are > > ultimately successful, then you can use that beach-head to find other > > niches to exploit. > > > > Good luck. As always, if you or any of your IM force is caught or killed > > our secretary will disavow any knowledge of your activities. > > All I can say is that you at least work for one cool guy! They're > open minded, willing to try a new approach, encouraged you to try, and > pretty much gave you a direction to start in. Not bad... Hard to find > managers like that anymore! Hear, hear. What a cool boss. Be sure to install FreeBSD in a partition (or on a new disk) on his machine and teach him everything you know. Also, keep looking for new niches to pound those BSD boxes into. Anything remotely related to networking is usually a good inroad. A departmental web server, one of those web-calendar apps for scheduling team meetings and conference rooms, etc. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message