From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Apr 18 13:37:52 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA17573 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 13:37:52 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA17565 ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 13:37:44 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Rodney W. Grimes" 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.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 95 11:50:09 PDT." <199504181850.LAA13389@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 13:37:43 -0700 Message-ID: <17564.798237463@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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