Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 13:30:45 -0500 From: "Dennis Reiter" <mcneills@inw.net> To: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Got Software? (Corel: Time for some advocacy) Message-ID: <003501bd7e9d$3efa7ad0$0200a8c0@Dell>
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One of the mail-order catalogs that I get, TigerDirect out of Florida, is pushing Linux from Walnut Creek (and Caldera.) Could they (WC) maybe offer FreeBSD to TigerDirect also or have they tried that? Regards, Denny Reiter denny@kewanee.net ICQ # 823496 ------------------------------------------ FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info -----Original Message----- From: Lars Gerhard Kuehl <kuehl@lgk.de> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>; jkh@time.cdrom.com <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 12:58 PM Subject: RE: Got Software? (Corel: Time for some advocacy) > >On 12-May-98 Amancio Hasty wrote: >> After we get the list we mass mail the software vendor asking them >> for a port to FreeBSD. With the anti-trust sentiments being so high >> this week , it is a great time to go out and get brand new apps for >> FreeBSD! > >Why mass mail? Why not a little more established way? >I think it was better to find a retail organisation who'd >ask the vendors. Anticipated profit is more convincing than >50 to 150 (maybe even annoying) mails from uncertain endcustomers. > >Here in Germany i'd have a partner, and we are thinking about >a commercial software collection plus installation support >with purchasable key-enabled installation option for each >contained product. This had certainly a better chance if it >would have an international base. > >Anyone interested in participation? > > Lars > >/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ > Ph: +49 40 54768010 >Lars Gerhard Kuehl Fx: +49 40 54768012 > Mo: +49 171 9307085 > EDV-Beratung Em: kuehl@lgk.de > > BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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