From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 8 6:14:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95CBF37B405 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 06:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 25393 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Jul 2001 13:14:47 -0000 Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 15:14:47 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Wes Peters Cc: Richard Hodges , Brian Somers , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <20010708151447.C24461@mail.webmonster.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Wes Peters , Richard Hodges , Brian Somers , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3B47DA2F.D417E048@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uh9ZiVrAOUUm9fzH" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B47DA2F.D417E048@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:57:35PM -0600 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --uh9ZiVrAOUUm9fzH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Wes Peters(wes@softweyr.com)@2001.07.07 21:57:35 +0000: > Richard Hodges wrote: > >=20 > > Sure, no argument there. Taking Wes' suggestion, maybe there is an > > opportunity in the "official" distribution distinction. How about a > > "certificate of authenticity" which costs the vendors $1 or $2 (or > > whatever), and shows the customer that their choice of vendors helped > > FreeBSD financially. Incidentally, this certificate might also be a > > selling point for those twisted individuals that just don't understand > > free software :-) >=20 > Now that's an idea, but it raises problems with shipping the "certificate= s" > across national borders, causing import duties, etc. Maybe if we made > the certificates in PostScript or even fig files. ;^)
=2E..make them pdf. stubborn marketing folks can only read one format ;-)
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