From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Sep 6 22:39:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19582 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:39:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netcom15.netcom.com (netcom15.netcom.com [192.100.81.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19564 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:39:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from das@netcom.com) Received: (from das@localhost) by netcom15.netcom.com (8.8.5-r-beta/8.8.5/(NETCOM v1.02)) id WAA20940; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:39:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Das Devaraj Subject: Re: Selling older versions of FreeBSD To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Advocacy List In-Reply-To: <4926.904915654@time.cdrom.com> 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 Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > >>From time to time surplus CDs of the previous release become > > >available. [SNIP] That I recall the only time previous versions > > were given away was 2.2.6. Was this ever done before? > > It's been done with almost every release since 1.1, though at rather > smaller quantities than with 2.2.6. Interesting, never knew that. I used to have a small Unix training center in Pleasant Hill (city next to Walnut Creek) and tried to get some old FreeBSD CDs from Walnut CDROM. My idea was to give them away free to prospective students. But I was told that all old CDs were instantly destroyed, when a new release came out. Even offering to pay a few $ for each CD did not help. das To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message