Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:27:59 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Selling FreeBSD to Mac users (was Re: ipfw vs ipfilter?) Message-ID: <XFMail.960815234246.dkelly@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <21937.840111170@time.cdrom.com>
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On 10:12:50 "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: >Perhaps if the Apple had been just a little more powerful, and its >peripherals less expensive, I'd be a Mac programmer now instead of a >timesharing operating system junkie. A sobering thought indeed. > > Jordan > >[Bruce, on the other hand, went on to become positively enamored of >the machine and eventually wound up working for Apple, poor guy. :) ] I've been thinking there is a great opportunity for Walnut Creek to advertise FreeBSD in Mac magazines. Recently a number of companies, Claris included, have started selling very expensive Mac-hosted email servers. The kind of thing FreeBSD does so easily. But the kicker is the *way* you write the ad. Mac users like to be entertained at Wintel system's expense. Say something like, "Now you've retired that troublesome PC and replaced it with a Mac, put the PC where it belongs, in the closet. In the networking closet. Running FreeBSD as your email server, internet gateway, etc. Because a Mac is a terrible thing to waste (for grunt work.)" Might even include a mention of Eudora Lite for the Mac end of the email system. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (wk), dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.help
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