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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:08:42 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [wilsonb@clarkson.edu: Encouragement of FreeBSD users to pressure VMWare to port their software to FreeBSD]
Message-ID:  <19990427170842.Q1229@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990427174001.A25285@cs.tu-berlin.de>; from Wolfram Schneider on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 05:40:01PM %2B0200
References:  <19990427174001.A25285@cs.tu-berlin.de>

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On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 05:40:01PM +0200, a little birdie told me
that Wolfram Schneider remarked
> ----- Forwarded message from Brian Wilson <wilsonb@clarkson.edu> -----
> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:38:08 -0400
> From: Brian Wilson <wilsonb@clarkson.edu>
> To: wosch@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Encouragement of FreeBSD users to pressure VMWare to port their software 
>  to FreeBSD
> 
> Hello,
> If it would be possible to somewhere on the freebsd.org website
> encourage FreeBSD users to email VMWare and pressure them to port their
> software to FreeBSD, or do you think there is a better place to
> encourage users to do this.  Sorry if this mail should have gone to
> someone other than yourself, but I didn't know where else to send it.


I think a generalize form of this might not be a bad idea.  A page of
'Commercial software we want', with places to 'add your signature' to a
petition or some such, so we can have hard numbers to throw at the
various vendors.  Or at least listing email/phone/snailmail/etc contacts
to request a FreeBSD version.



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