From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 19:42:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA21626 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA21619 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:42:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA09046; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:41:45 -0700 (PDT) To: Mark Mayo cc: Stephen Roome , jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 18 Apr 1997 22:27:56 EDT." <19970418222756.50658@vinyl.quickweb.com> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:41:45 -0700 Message-ID: <9044.861417705@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > But seriously, the CS departments are where FreeBSD needs to aim its > marketing arrows at - learn from the Tobacco companies: get 'em hooked > while they're young and they'll be yours for eternity. Absolutely. This isn't just endemic to Tobacco companies either; DEC did the same thing in universities across the nation and spawned a whole generation of VAX programmers in the process. :-) > I encourage everyone to pick up their broadswords and start swinging; active > promotion is the only way to get freebsd more attention! Yes! As I've also said already, if you're in just such an educational institution, SEND ME EMAIL! We send out literally hundreds of CDs for this at every major release and have no problem with sending out hundreds more! Also, this may be a little-known fact, but Walnut Creek CDROM also encourages developing countries to freely duplicate the FreeBSD CDs locally. When Bob Bruce (our president) was recently in China, he even tried to convince some local pirates that FreeBSD was _really valuable_ and boy, gosh, wouldn't Walnut Creek CDROM be in trouble if it was pirated all over China! He says they didn't bite, but he at least gave the reverse-psychology approach his best shot. :-) Needless to say, if you're somewhere that has a hard time getting FreeBSD CDs through customs, *please* - consider making and selling your own copies to your local market! Walnut Creek CDROM wants FreeBSD to spread far and wide, no matter what it may take to bring that about (well, OK, we draw the line at outright imperialism and signing users up at gunpoint :-). Jordan