From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 6 18:51:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13423 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 18:51:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13414 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 18:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4025.ime.net [209.90.195.35]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id VAA18997; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 21:45:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19981106214312.00b897f0@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 21:43:50 -0500 To: Mark Ovens , Wes Peters From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: Halloween memo - what does it mean? Cc: Daniel Berlin , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3643B2DC.4397743B@uk.radan.com> References: <364341A8.5D32F671@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:39 AM 11/7/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >Wes Peters wrote: >> Microsoft DOES participate in a well-organized conspiracy to get their >> software onto every computer in the world, it's called "the Marketing >> Department." It's obviously very effective, because they haven't won >> their current sales figures through technological superiority;> > >A classic example of "Well-marketed mediocrity will triumph over >technical excellence every time" > >> -- >> 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 > >-- > When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. > >Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd >Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions >mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.uk.radan.com Well if you're underminding the public (which is easy to do with the 70% of the Windows users that don't give a crap what they're running as long as Need For Speed works), then yeah, it's pretty easy to market :) --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message