From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Oct 27 14:19:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01232 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:19:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01217 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:19:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29419; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:18:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd029394; Tue Oct 27 15:18:24 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09099; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:18:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810272218.PAA09099@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 22:18:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: grog@lemis.com, netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3635C799.A1998CDE@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at Oct 27, 98 06:16:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm up for testing Corel; can we get a logo designed? I don't think > > we need a lot of formal setup for this, perhaps just someone who can > > maintain the web page. > > % EXCELLENT idea! Yes, we should do this. > > I'm glad you think so. I'd mentioned this idea a couple of times > before, in this mailing list, and nobody even bothered to tell me > I'm stupid, let alone agree. I was beginning to feel like I was > shouting into a vacuum. I have an issue with the install process, and with "brandelf". I think this should be done transparently. I suspect this means providing a FreeBSD installer for the product, and trying to convince them to ship the installer with their software (most desirable), or provide it on their site (less desirable, since the program won't install "out of the box" that way). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message