From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jun 13 20:29:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11334 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 20:29:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (daemon@smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11313 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 20:29:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bkogawa@primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29625 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 20:29:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from ip199.sjc.primenet.com(206.165.96.199), claiming to be "foo.primenet.com" via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd029579; Sat Jun 13 20:28:54 1998 Received: from localhost (bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id UAA01010 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 20:30:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: foo.primenet.com: bkogawa owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 20:30:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Reply-To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copyright In-Reply-To: <358200EC.9EDAB78A@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [cc's trimmed] On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Wes Peters wrote: > You're exactly right, the charter of this mailing lists is more in > line with the "technical evangelists" at Apple in the past. I > hope we're somewhat less rabid (and more reasoned) than the Kawasaki > Corps, though. I concur. > A quick trip through an on-line thesarus turned up nothing of real help. > "FreeBSD Missionaries" conjures up visions of a large stew pot with Jack > Velte hot-tubbing his way to millions; not exactly the light *I* want > to protray us in. ;^) "FreeBSD Advocates" sounds a little too much > like a software licensing law firm. Sigh. Perhaps we should adopt > a Klingon word or something? An obscure latin phrase? Hmm... 1/2 kidding on all of these, but advocacy has rather wrong connotations: 1. FreeBSD Publicity 2. FreeBSD Marketing 3. FreeBSD Promotion 4. FreeBSD Strategic Market Initiatives For those of you not subscribed to -newbies, someone just asked "what do you guys do with FreeBSD?" and it's generated some very nice testimonials. If we were to post those on a web page... Another very positive mention of FreeBSD on InfoWorld Electric. Nicholas Petreley says nice things about FreeBSD, particularly WC's documentation for the set: http://forums.infoworld.com/threads/get.cgi?59820 bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message