From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 16 08:27:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05576 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:27:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05567 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:27:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@partsnow.com) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id IAA00284 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:27:51 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from wildeweb(192.168.100.10) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma000277; Mon, 16 Feb 98 08:27:44 -0800 Message-ID: <34E8688E.76A93CD7@partsnow.com> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:25:50 -0800 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: don@partsnow.com Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Coming out Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org No, I don't mean what you think. I'd just like to float a trial balloon. Infoworld just had a big lead article about how the server choice is disappearing now that the proprietary UNIX world is being drowned by cheap NT boxes. I would like to see if anyone is interested in joining together to take out a large ad in Infoworld to promote FreeBSD. I myself would contribute $100 cash to the effort, and I think if each of you consider the benefit to our code base if even one percent of the Micros**t sysadmin world considers switching and 1% of them actually contributes. FreeBSD (and the rest of the freeware base) would benefit enormously [although we might need to clone Doug and Greg and Amancio and probably a few others :)] ------------------------------------- | FreeBSD... the Power to Serve! | | | | If even one percent of the M$ | | NT server users switch to free | | software like FreeBSD, XFree86 | | Apache and GNU tools, and only | | one percent actually contributes | | code to the collection, free | | software will overtake proprie- | | tary solutions so fast the | | future will regard Microsoft | | and other obnoxious software | | licensers as an evolutionary | | dead end on the way to truly | | open computing. | | | | http://www.freebsd.org | ------------------------------------- Any takers? -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo  To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message