Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:59:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com> To: Don Wilde <don@partsnow.com> Cc: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Coming out Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216135823.514B-100000@quark.ChrisBowman.com> In-Reply-To: <34E877D0.E4A72BA1@partsnow.com>
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On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Don Wilde wrote: >> > 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 > Is FreeBSD Inc. a 501 c 3? if we all made the contributions to FReeBSD Inc. and they intern purchased the add, that would make it a charitable contribution and thus tax deuctable right? --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com <A HREF="http://www.ChrisBowman.com">My home page</A> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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