From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Dec 2 11:45:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C703D37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:45:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FD343EA9 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:45:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6I00HJTC7AN3@thor.acuson.com> for advocacy@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:45:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:40:17 -0800 Received: from acuson.com (bull.acuson.com [157.226.46.72]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id V00LSL2L; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:42:19 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:45:01 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: Article in The Register To: advocacy@freebsd.org Message-id: <3DEBB83D.4030209@acuson.com> Organization: Acuson MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020611 References: <3.0.5.32.20021202150428.00d11818@199.107.2.1> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Doyle wrote: > An article in The Register today mentions FreeBSD in a very favourable > light, in the context of discussing dirty tricks by the sales reps > of the big monopoly we all love to pretend to hate. :-) > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28386.html Maybe we can play the same game... Show this article to the IT guy blocking your move to FreeBSD. Tell him to set up a test case for FreeBSD. Leak the news to his MS rep. Have the rep come in and offer free licenses for the software we're going to use anyway. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message