From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 16 09:32:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21849 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:32:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21841 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:32:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@partsnow.com) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA01533; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:32:53 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from wildeweb(192.168.100.10) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma001531; Mon, 16 Feb 98 09:32:50 -0800 Message-ID: <34E877D0.E4A72BA1@partsnow.com> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:30:56 -0800 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: don@partsnow.com Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Mayo CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Coming out References: <34E8688E.76A93CD7@partsnow.com> <19980216122023.02358@vmunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I would like to see if anyone is interested in joining together to take > > out a large ad in Infoworld to promote FreeBSD. I myself would > > contribute $100 cash to the effort, and I think if each of you consider > > the benefit to our code base if even one percent of the Micros**t > > sysadmin world considers switching and 1% of them actually contributes. > > FreeBSD (and the rest of the freeware base) would benefit enormously > > [although we might need to clone Doug and Greg and Amancio and probably > > a few others :)] > > How much does an ad cost? I'm guessing that a full page ad is pretty > pricey.. Don't know. They're closed today, unlike us werking fools, uh, folks. I would suspect it's about 4x what a subscriber-paid rag is, about $5-10K, maybe? So we take a 1/4 page, the editorial ripples would add tremendous multiplication of value. I feel pretty strongly about this, because I know what the benefit of doubling our serious-sysadmin-user base would be. Maybe we could also get some of the other ORGs and big users to contribute in return for a logo insertion, like our good buddies YAHOO, and maybe even Oracle (if the rumors are true... John?). As I said once before, I'm going to be speaking at NetWorld+InterOp in May, and I urge all of you to find whatever soapboxes you can. Now, before M$ can release NT5 and 98, and while the DOJ is giving them incredibly bad press, is our time to make some real advances. It's to all our benefit. > Win95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to > an an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, > written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -UGU Gawd, that's rich. :) :) :) -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo  To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message