From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jul 4 07:05:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03883 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 07:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mooseriver.com (dynamic57.pm03.sf3d.best.com [209.24.234.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03876 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 07:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch@mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by mooseriver.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id HAA06875; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 07:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980704070548.A6732@mooseriver.com> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 07:05:48 -0700 From: Josef Grosch To: "Jan B. Koum " , Josef Grosch Cc: Wes Peters , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advocates, speak up! (re: just something to say) Reply-To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com References: <19980704002356.E398@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jan B. Koum on Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 12:35:53AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 12:35:53AM -0700, Jan B. Koum wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Josef Grosch wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 09:42:55PM -0700, Jan B. Koum wrote: > >> > >> Here is my list of companies which would appeal to suit wearing > >> droids. Lets add to it and make it biger: > >> > >> www.yahoo.com > >> www.hotmail.com > >> www.ebay.com > >> www.best.com > >> www.whistle.com > >> www.pluris.com > >> www.linkexchange.com > > > >You forgot; > > > >www.mediacity.com > >www.cdrom.com > >www.freebsd.org > >www.moviedatabase.com > > I think my point got lost along the way here. We are making a case > to business people. People who wear suites. People who don't know what boot > sector is. They dont' know and dont' care what freebsd.org is or cdrom.com > is. They want examples where people made a lot of money using FreeBSD. I > think everything I list would qualify. Out of what you listed I think only > mediacity and moviedatabase qualify. Thanks. But do remember, we need > examples of people making BIG money with FreeBSD. Not simply running BIG > servers. We are not making our case to techies - we are making our case to > suit wearing public. > Sorry, www.freebsd.org and www.cdrom.com was a very poor joke. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.7 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message