Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:00:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: dmorrisn@u.washington.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <199804110000.TAA06459@darkstar.connect.com> In-Reply-To: <352EA9D5.B30C445F@u.washington.edu>
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Don Morrison <dmorrisn@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > Such is true. I am a "newish" FreeBSD user and SuSE Linux reseller. > I > > see a ready market for free "low cost" software in college > bookstores, > > particularly those universities that have computer engineering and > > comsci departments. Part of evangelism is marketing and market > > presence. Having this OS on display at universities will attract a > > young audience the very people that are evangelizing Linux. > > Frank > > > > Yup, as far as free OS's go, linux is practically all we have at my > University's Bookstore. There's a whole shelf of books on the > subject, all > new and up to date, and _stacks_ of Red Hat linux boxes as well as a > few > SuSE and Caldera OpenLinux-Lite boxes and some slackware cd's with > some of > the books, but about all they have on BSD are the printed 4.4BSD > manuals > (which I don't think they're going to sell anymore there,) and a > couple, > highly technical books such as "The Design and Implementation of the > 4.4BSD > Operating System." Nothing specific to FreeBSD is to be found there. > :( > Funny, cause they carry other cdroms from walnut creek there... Which goes to prove my point. This is where the efforts have to start. Frank > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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