From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Aug 6 18:42:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from wenet.net (pm3-5.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E1D15619 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 18:42:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by wenet.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA03228; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 18:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 18:41:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda To: Brian McGroarty Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a product In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Newcomers periodically question the choice of Chucky Daemon as > FreeBSD's mascot. The resolution of these discussions is invariably a > suggestion that the person asking "didn't get it." Chucky is that satanic doll from those movies that comes back to life and kills everyone; "the daemon", "beastie", "that furry red thing" or whatever you choose to call it, is not named Chucky :) > - An attractive box with heavy contents adds $20 to software's perceived > value. Nah, I really don't think so. Even so, getting a better desgin on the package, really would not hurt in any way. I don't think as poorly as you do of the current CD packaging (having never seen it in person); but I do feel there's always room for improvement. P.S. A really neat idea might be a boxed Oracle distribution of some sort. But oh wait, they've got Linux division; not a FreeBSD one. Hell some sort of distribution including some big comercial package of choice would really be neat (Oracle 8, Now with FreeBSD). - alex Experience something different With our new imported dolly She's lovely, warm, inflatable And we guarantee her joy - The Police To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message