From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 05:14:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABCF16A4DA for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:14:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1443E43D46 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:14:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so3169021uge for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:14:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=T6xXAh/oqM5pPdxNeKslreSiepDzIMkw3iI9rsMfbnsiB0rRRKpEaqLRGxNQ7Cdx5kl8pj9mL/M15M4UqrZKvMzKGyDwP158OAzZkzKd+zoA4FOqBLsqUuFMTB30ByYLJeTHopsSidM1ZNcCqfMU2G7R+OIFWqEp4K++YmdUTbY= Received: by 10.78.140.17 with SMTP id n17mr2840466hud; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.165.18 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:14:32 -0400 From: "David Stanford" To: "Carmen Chase" In-Reply-To: <200607260155.30403.s_c_chase@yahoo.com.ar> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200607260155.30403.s_c_chase@yahoo.com.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permission to Distribute OS and Demon Logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:14:34 -0000 On 7/26/06, Carmen Chase wrote: > > Hello from Buenos Aires, Argentina! > > My name is Carmen Chase and I request your permission to distribute > FreeBSD & > ports, use the BSD Demon, and links to the manuals & downloads sites. Our > objective is to locally promote and generalize FreeBSD as end users - not > criticize other systems, or profit from FreeBSD. Let me explain: > > The overwhelming majority of argentine PC users run un-licensed Microsoft > Sytems and software. The remainder have licenses or use Linux. FreeBSD is > unknown to the average PC user. > > Although efforts are being made to control piracy, the vast majority of > final > users cannot afford microsoft licences. In terms of local purchasing > power, > windows XP would cost the equivalent of $1500 us dollars in the US market. > Meanwhile, PC usage continues to grow by leaps and bounds. > > Over the last few years our family have increasingly used FreeBSD, > consider it > a grand solution and greatly admire your organization and acheivements. In > fact, we would like to see FreeBSD generalized amongst the millions of > argentine users and small businesses. > > To achieve this objective, we are considering a simple non-profit web > site, > with a help section, history section, forum, bulletin boards, jobs/help > wanted, links, videos clips demonstrating the system, etc... and request > your > permision to use the Demon Logo, and distribute the FreeBSD operating > system > & ports. > > Any support would be greatly appreciated! > > Respectfully yours, > > Carmen Chase > tel. 4541-1434 > > PD please let us know you received this message! > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > http://www.freebsd.org/art.html#USE http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html#GUIDELINE -David -- [root@fbsd ~]# fortune Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion.