From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Aug 31 18:28:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22423 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:28:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22388 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:28:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrD-23.aei.ca [206.186.204.173]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA02405; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:26:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35EB4D5E.2F94F9EA@aei.ca> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:26:54 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen CC: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lobbying for ports to FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Chen wrote: > > Hi, > > Some email addresses for people to lobby to: > > info@sdcorp.com Corel > web-mktg@us.oracle.com Oracle (and if Oracle joins the party, > the other big boys will as well). > > While quantity counts, remember that a politely worded request for > info will bring more friends to the fold than any demands will. > > Cheers. > -- > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > When the character of a man is not clear to you, > look at his friends. How about to set a page wich will tel where/how to lobby, where to vote(if there is a place to vote like "what is my OS") and what to do to advocate freebsd. Also "how" to write a letter to a corporation asking to port their software/hardware-drivers to freebsd. Has you say, "politely worded". -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message