From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 30 14:42:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04824 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:42:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04818 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:42:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id OAA18991; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:42:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA20514; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:42:39 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id PAA03064; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:42:38 -0700 Message-ID: <363A40DE.42EB3424@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:42:38 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert CC: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) References: <199810302231.PAA10092@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > I still think there is a need for a FreeBSD "install presence" on > the distributed commercial software. It's not like you'd be > asking for a large portion of CDROM realestate. > > It's not a hard requirement, but it should be strongly encouraged. I agree, if they're going to put one of our logos on their product, they should include the installer on the media. If we're "advertising" their product(s) on the FreeBSD web pages, we certainly don't have much leverage to force the installer onto their media. The "Designed for FreeBSD", or "Pure FreeBSD" category already assumes a FreeBSD install program, of course. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message