From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 6 04:53:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA08167 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:53:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (srv1.thuntek.net [206.206.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA08162 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-056.thuntek.net [207.66.52.56]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.9.1/8.6.12TNT1.0) with ESMTP id FAA01848; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 05:53:37 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36BC4994.B75F9675@thuntek.net> Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 05:54:28 -0800 From: Don Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai CC: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > [snip] > As far as the desktop goes, in my understanding it's merely what I > proposed/said earlier, to ease entry into FreeBSD, but it will still make > it necessary for the user to read. > > If ye have suggestion as to make it evident to the user that they need to > be bothered to actually try to understand what the computer is trying to > `say' through the programs, then I'm all ears. > My experience has been that the people we can reach are those who mourn the loss of DOS batch programming. I sent my brother-in-law FreeBSD and the Complete FreeBSD. Nothing happened. I sent him a book on 'Learning the BASH shell', and he got it. > There is just one category of people we can never help: the lazy ones. > Never let the government get in the way of natural selection... -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ _________ ___==__ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde dwilde1@thuntek.net [ = = ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo---oo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message