From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 13:16:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C5237BE94 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:16:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02304; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id NAA18508; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:16:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:16:40 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Chris McNett Cc: xxxkauaxxx@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Message-ID: <20000727131640.C17741@athena.sea.tera.com> References: <20000727141402.78975.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: <20000727141402.78975.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Chris McNett on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:14:02PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:14:02PM +0000, Chris McNett wrote: > FREEBSD IS NOT A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT. The FreeBSD project doesn't sell it. > Walnut Creek CDROM sells CD's of FreeBSD, but people like me who have DSL > simply download it from the Internet. Walnut Creek and the FreeBSD Mall > have reasonable prices, so you should be able to buy the CD at a reasonable > price if you need it. The best way to learn about it is to use it. There > is a very helpful handbook online which should walk you through installation > and everything. Also, anyone who would actually buy FreeBSD from a computer > store should simply order a CD from Walnut Creek. > [[ ... ]] > > >Hi my name is Kaua and I work at CompUSA in Concord California. I was > >wondering if you had any promos going on to educate retail sales people on > >the software. For example, Intel has a special site for retail and sales > >reps to get more knowlege on the procs and chip sets so that they can sell > >the product a lot better. I want to learn more about the software so I can > >be more pepared for customers. I also wanted to know if you sell the > >product to reps at a discounted price. ...Despite what's already been said, this is first time I've ever heard of anyone at CompUSA show any interest in any flavor of Unix. I think it'd be super if CompUSA offered a PC clone with *BSD pre-installed. Greg L's book and a selection of CD's included with the box. But: not likely... . gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message