From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 12:30:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA6037B401 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stone.locallink.net (Stone.LocalLink.Net [65.170.77.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E4D43F3F for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpitcher@locallink.net) Received: from 65.170.77.2 (av.LocalLink.Net [65.170.77.8]) by viruscanner.locallink.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F49041B5E for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:30:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by stone.locallink.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D7A6441B55; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:30:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:30:08 -0400 From: Keith Pitcher To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030430193008.GA31891@stone.locallink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Subject: Get MS to donate money to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:30:05 -0000 Today we got this letter from Microsoft promoting http://getbettermail.com. They are pushing services that help reach the correct target audience, promoting that it is environmentally friendly. You'll also notice the website has trees all over. The kicker is, the brochure is super heavy duty paper, very thick, very large brochure. Lots of trees died for this mailing about being environmentally friendly. Anyhow, they will pick one entry to give $10,000 to the charity of their choice. The FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit, so it should be applicabley. Also it'd be nice to have money given to the Foundation so they can finish the work on native java binaries. It appears anyone can fill out the form, as even their guest account offers ways to have a charity receive money. If enough people enter to swing the odds in FreeBSD's favor, that'd be a great headline to see "Microsoft helps fund development of Java running on Open Source" Oh, and in all of the questions asking about which operating system various applications run on (Web servers, messaging, etc) you'll have to be answering "Other" a whole lot. They kinda forgot to include FreeBSD as an option, along with postfix, etc... Keith