Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 19:16:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Demo & freebsd-*lite* Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422190902.206C-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <353E9B54.9E8D0A4C@aei.ca>
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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Malartre wrote: > You can do a lot of promotion without having to do a lite version. > I explain: You should do a Demo in Java or for win95 (Visual Basic) who I like this. A simple multimedia thing could do the trick in mpeg or quicktime format. Show some "killer" apps. Speak some propoganda. Tell 'em where to get FreeBSD. K.I.S.S. Gaming companies put out trailers all the time. Of course, it is a bit more exciting watching "Thresh" wallop bad guys in Quake than it is wathing "His Coreness" using gcc. A little imagination could make it neat. Maybe we could drum up a simple sound byte for an endorsement. Maybe we could get permission to use a sound byte from the most visible of free software spokes people... (shhhh mr. torvalds) ... supporting free software. If such a thing were done, I would vote for "professional" over "cute". Have fun, | Stop warning me about the latest virus. Learn more... Jason Wells | http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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