From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Aug 7 15: 2: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4A437B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7702443E65 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tyson@stanfordalumni.org) Received: from washdc3-ar2-4-64-219-112.washdc3.elnk.dsl.genuity.net ([4.64.219.112] helo=orange.home) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17cYsE-0003uK-00; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 15:01:46 -0700 From: Don Tyson To: Michael Lucas Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, tyson@alumni.stanford.org Subject: Re: leading questions for interview? In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Lucas of "Wed, 07 Aug 2002 13:11:02 EDT." <20020807131102.A48105@blackhelicopters.org> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 18:01:45 -0400 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stay positive, whatever you say. "Right tool for the right job, sometimes it's FreeBSD, sometimes it's Linux, sometimes (gasp) it's even WIN2K" and all that, as many others have pointed out. Instead of, or in addition to, why *they* should use FreeBSD, why do *you* like it -- " what I like about it is --- blah blah blah" "what it does for me is, blah blah blah." Don Tyson > > Guys, > > I'm going to be interviewed for a Net radio talk show, Computer Beat > (www.compbeat.com) for my newly-released FreeBSD book. > > Much to my surprise, I have the opportunity to offer the interviewer > some questions that I would like to be asked. While I have a couple > boring, basic questions, I'm sure there are good questions out there. > > I'd like to take the opportunity to do some general FreeBSD advocacy, > as fifteen minutes is a long time to talk about a book. ("It's good! > Buy it!") I am drawing a blank on questions that would be of interest > to a general audience. Everything I can think of is stuff like "How > is SMP/MAC/KSE coming along, which would be of interest to people in > the BSD crowd but not beyond. > > The audience is computer literate, but not necessarily BSD-literate. > > Any ideas, anyone? > > -- > Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons > > Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message