From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 17:00:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16643 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 17:00:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16623 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 17:00:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fpawlak@execpc.com) Received: from darkstar.connect.com (cadezia-67.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.82.67]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.8.8) id TAA21079; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:00:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from fpawlak@localhost) by darkstar.connect.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06459; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:00:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Pawlak Message-Id: <199804110000.TAA06459@darkstar.connect.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:00:15 -0500 (CDT) To: dmorrisn@u.washington.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" In-Reply-To: <352EA9D5.B30C445F@u.washington.edu> X-Mailer: Ishmail 1.3.2-971023-FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don Morrison 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