From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Aug 6 12: 3:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [204.188.6.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D8B714D69 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 12:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unfurl@magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 9876 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Aug 1999 19:02:56 -0000 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 12:02:56 -0700 From: Bill Swingle To: Brian McGroarty Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a product Message-ID: <19990806120256.C9492@dub.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian McGroarty on Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:09:00PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:09:00PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: I'm not even going to touch these already much hashed out issues, but.,.. > I would also STRONGLY suggest that The FreeBSD Handbook and the CDs be made > available in a more tranditional software box. The book on its own feels > flimsy. And the four CD set on its own looks intimidating. Until a user knows > more about the product in hand, you need to be sure that intuition is on your > side. Make sure they feel comfortable with your product. Make sure they feel > good having that in hand. > > - An attractive box with heavy contents adds $20 to software's perceived > value. *poof* Wish granted. Actaully the first FreeBSD Boxes should be hitting the streets farily soon. It includes the full 3.2 distribution, Toolkit, and Complete FreeBSD (third edition). http://www.freebsdmall.com/software/#bsdpak -Bill -- -=| Bill Swingle - unfurl@dub.net - unfurl@freebsd.org - bill@cdrom.com -=| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" Pablo Picasso To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message