From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 13:16:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB5837B401 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F219743FAF for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from markie@notwentytwo.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from modem-3866.cheetah.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.111.26] helo=mrblossom) by cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.14) id 19Axzt-0003JR-8O; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:16:09 +0100 Message-ID: <000701c30f55$6f6c9650$f300a8c0@mrblossom> From: "Markie" To: "Keith Pitcher" , References: <20030430193008.GA31891@stone.locallink.net> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:16:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Subject: Re: Get MS to donate money to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:16:15 -0000 Nice plan, Although they say a charity of your choice, it seems you can only choose from http://getbettermail.com/charities.asp? Or maybe I just don't get it (wouldn't suprise me :)) Markie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Pitcher" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 8:30 PM Subject: Get MS to donate money to FreeBSD > Today we got this letter from Microsoft promoting http://getbettermail.com. > > They are pushing services that help reach the correct target audience, > promoting that it is environmentally friendly. You'll also notice the > website has trees all over. The kicker is, the brochure is super heavy duty > paper, very thick, very large brochure. Lots of trees died for this mailing > about being environmentally friendly. > > Anyhow, they will pick one entry to give $10,000 to the charity of their > choice. The FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit, so it should be applicabley. > Also it'd be nice to have money given to the Foundation so they can finish the > work on native java binaries. > > It appears anyone can fill out the form, as even their guest account offers ways > to have a charity receive money. If enough people enter to swing the odds in > FreeBSD's favor, that'd be a great headline to see "Microsoft helps fund > development of Java running on Open Source" > > Oh, and in all of the questions asking about which operating system various > applications run on (Web servers, messaging, etc) you'll have to be > answering "Other" a whole lot. They kinda forgot to include FreeBSD as an > option, along with postfix, etc... > > > Keith > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >