From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Aug 1 14:04:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22072 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 14:04:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lorax.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22051 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 14:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by lorax.ubergeeks.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA08509; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 17:04:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 17:04:16 -0400 (EDT) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Brett Glass cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maybe it's time to use Microsoft's tactics In-Reply-To: <199808011816.MAA27458@lariat.lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > 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? Something like this might work if it were possible to include sample CD's. Just a thought. I'm guessing it would be to WC's advantage to support something like this. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message