Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:20:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, kline@tera.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows Refund Day: Watch out for Linux tactics Message-ID: <199902150720.AAA10143@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990214114417.03fa0480@mail.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Feb 14, 99 11:59:58 am
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> >*NOTE* This has been moved to chat. > > > >BAFUG (Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group) is also involved in this. BAFUG has > >been coordating the Linux people here in the Bay Area to pull this > >off. > > And the Linux people are doing everything in their power to make sure > that the public thinks EVERYONE there is a Linux user. Note that the > press report you quoted mentions ONLY Linux! My belief is that they > intend to play the users of other operating systems who show up for > patsies -- use them to strengthen the impression that everyone at > the event uses Linux, and only Linux. So do what I'm going to do: show up in your FreeBSD T-shirt. It doesn't matter if you are actually there to get a refund or not; there's no way to tell that from the other side of the camera. > BAFUG should make DARN sure that the press knows it's there. Better > bring BIG banners with "FreeBSD" and the daemon logo displayed > prominently -- not to mention disks, buttons, and T-shirts, if possible. Tell Jordan. He has that stuff for the trade shows. 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-chat" in the body of the message
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