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Subject: Re: Enough already! (Re: Why we should support Microsoft...)
In-Reply-To: <450.895781625@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 21, 98 01:13:45 pm"
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According to Jordan K. Hubbard:
> > 		Maybe.  But a way to get more people to use our 
> > 		flavor is to provide an environment that is as 
> > 		easy to use as M$ or Apple.  The capabilities are
> > 		here.
> 
> Watch this space..  The desktop contest web pages are almost ready
> and, when they are, I'll launch the contest official with full details
> on just what sort of contest it is, what it's supposed to achieve, etc
> etc. :)
> 

	This sounds like a major win.  Any entrepreneurs out there
	could take this to (say, Dell) and offer fully pre-configured
	BSD @  $20 PC.  Six months of free telephone//email//web
	support.  

	Plus X, Y, and Z.

	gary

	PS:  The gotcha isn't capital as much as it is grit. 


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