From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Aug 1 11:16:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04770 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 11:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org ([206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04764 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 11:16:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27458; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:16:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199808011816.MAA27458@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 12:16:16 -0600 To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Maybe it's time to use Microsoft's tactics Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to a recent article by Dan Gillmor at http://www.sjmercury.com/columnists/gillmor/docs/dg073198.htm (See the bit at the bottom), Microsoft's PR agency assigns an "owner" to every article it perceives as negative. This person is responsible for contacting the author and doing MS evangelism. Perhaps it's time to fight fire with fire, doing this for both Microsoft AND Linux. Every time an article mentions Linux and not FreeBSD, or mentions problems with NT, the author should be contacted with an admonishment to try FreeBSD. On the other hand, authors who DO mention FreeBSD should be encouraged to do more of it. The effort could be organized through this list. How about it? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message