From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 1 14:01:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21481 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 14:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thor.inlink.com (thor.inlink.com [206.196.96.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21455 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 14:00:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rayseals@midwestis.com) Received: from sparc.midwestis.com (sparc.midwestis.com [206.196.126.220]) by thor.inlink.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07806; Fri, 1 May 1998 16:00:54 -0500 Received: from rseals.midwestis.com ([209.135.156.243] (may be forged)) by sparc.midwestis.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA05949; Fri, 1 May 1998 16:00:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Fri, 1 May 1998 16:01:34 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD751A.69EA3C80.rayseals@midwestis.com> From: Ray Seals Reply-To: "rayseals@midwestis.com" To: "'Garance A Drosihn'" , "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Slogan Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 15:32:09 -0500 Organization: Midwest Information Systems X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, how about: The only wizard is the one behind the keyboard. I just setup 3 NT servers. I mentioned to the VP of IS (he sat with me to "learn" how to setup an NT server) that if a server OS needs to have wizards for simple admin. tasks, then you need new administrators. -----Original Message----- From: Garance A Drosihn [SMTP:drosih@rpi.edu] Sent: Friday, May 01, 1998 11:58 AM To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slogan At 9:59 AM -0500 5/1/98, Ray Seals wrote: >Some ideas on a slogan: > > Implementing is more important than budgeting. > > When power is more important than price. Plausible, although it implies that FreeBSD is pricey or that it would break your budget. :-) In thinking why I prefer options like freebsd or linux, I'd think the key is the open-source policy. If there is a bug I need to fix for my company, I can just do it, or contract out to have someone fix it. If there's a bug in WindowsXX, I have to beg Microsoft to fix it, and my bug (or requested feature) will be priority 100 on a long list of things that millions of people are asking Microsoft for. I'm not quite sure how to shrink that into a 10-second catchy slogan. I'm inclined towards ads like the suburu one. Something like "You paid a whole lot more for that operating system, but at least your priorities will be insignificant to the company you bought it from". I can just imagine Microsoft decending on us with about 8,000 lawyers over that one... Perhaps "When you have the source, you get to set your own priorities for what gets done next". --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message