From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 7 20:52:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188A637B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 20:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost.softweyr.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=104987a56fd11937d695309f7652d88e) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15J5hP-0000P4-00; Sat, 07 Jul 2001 21:57:35 -0600 Message-ID: <3B47DA2F.D417E048@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 21:57:35 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Hodges Cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard Hodges wrote: > > Sure, no argument there. Taking Wes' suggestion, maybe there is an > opportunity in the "official" distribution distinction. How about a > "certificate of authenticity" which costs the vendors $1 or $2 (or > whatever), and shows the customer that their choice of vendors helped > FreeBSD financially. Incidentally, this certificate might also be a > selling point for those twisted individuals that just don't understand > free software :-) Now that's an idea, but it raises problems with shipping the "certificates" across national borders, causing import duties, etc. Maybe if we made the certificates in PostScript or even fig files. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message