Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 13:37:43 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp), jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, core@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this could sort of be of interest to us, too.. Message-ID: <17564.798237463@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 95 11:50:09 PDT." <199504181850.LAA13389@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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> In all seriousnous though, it is becoming extremly difficult for me
> to seperate my commercial interest in FreeBSD from my personal
> interest. I am worried about going over board on the mailling
> lists and getting my butt chewed out for doing so. I would like to
> here from any of you if you think I have over stepped or am getting
Ok, here's my "take" on how this could be best managed:
Do it as a hybrid service/business. Set about compiling up all those
very useful "I recommend the ASUS 4PGNLNGX11-QR4 with the Burst-wobble
triolic RAM and most definitely NOT the pre-2.6 rev Humper chipset
since it has an annoying tendency to run ExtendedHyperBucky IDE drives
in reverse" comments that you make on the mailing lists and call it
"Rod's hardware page - all your FreeBSD hardware questions answered
here!" The page would be done with various useful hot links pointing
to the different hardware categories or types of questions, and it's
only fair that the last entry can be one on how AAC will save you the
trouble of reading all this stuff if all you want is a canned
configuration. In fact, each of your "sample" configurations could
coincidently {heh heh} have a hot link pointing to your price for that
system! :-) Seriously. Just as long as you're providing a useful
service *independant* of the commercial aspect, nobody will say "boo"
about it. Consider wcarchive.cdrom.com - it's a walking CDROM
advertisement, but do people complain? Heck no! They send us love
notes about what terrific people we are for maintaining the server as
a public service. Provide a public service while shamelessly flogging
your products and you'll have a similar degree of success.
I'm sure the various HTML wizards would be happy to comment on your
first drafts.. :-)
Jordan
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