From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Aug 7 10:24: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F6E37B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:24:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B17C43E84 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:24:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisc@vmunix.com) Received: by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix, from userid 1005) id 90C8C2D; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:24:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C1249A17; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:24:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:24:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Coleman To: Michael Lucas Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: leading questions for interview? In-Reply-To: <20020807131102.A48105@blackhelicopters.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How about "Why should I use FreeBSD?" I expect that their audience will all be asking them selves that question. Chris Coleman Editor in Chief Daemon News E-Zine http://www.daemonnews.org Print Magazine http://magazine.daemonnews.org BSD Mall http://www.bsdmall.com On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Michael Lucas wrote: > > Guys, > > I'm going to be interviewed for a Net radio talk show, Computer Beat > (www.compbeat.com) for my newly-released FreeBSD book. > > Much to my surprise, I have the opportunity to offer the interviewer > some questions that I would like to be asked. While I have a couple > boring, basic questions, I'm sure there are good questions out there. > > I'd like to take the opportunity to do some general FreeBSD advocacy, > as fifteen minutes is a long time to talk about a book. ("It's good! > Buy it!") I am drawing a blank on questions that would be of interest > to a general audience. Everything I can think of is stuff like "How > is SMP/MAC/KSE coming along, which would be of interest to people in > the BSD crowd but not beyond. > > The audience is computer literate, but not necessarily BSD-literate. > > Any ideas, anyone? > > -- > Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons > > Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm > > 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