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Date:      Fri, 04 Sep 1998 23:00:22 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@newsguy.com>
To:        "Advocacy List" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Subject:   Re: Selling older versions of FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199809050300.UAA25459@newsguy.com>

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On Sat, 5 Sep 1998 10:54:36 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:

>> I think a deep discount may be better than free. At the very least
>> shipping should be covered.
>
>next week), but I was thinking of giving some to local computer
>shops.  I don't like the idea of giving it for free, so I'll ask them
>for $10 (to be contributed to the project) just so that some frisbee
>collector doesn't grab them.


I could be totally wrong, but I think direct sales/giveaway is much
better than leaving them sitting somewhere. The store will not care a
bit if someone who for whatever reason dislikes FreeBSD will take
copies away just to trash them. You may be thinking people are
picking them up whent it is just one guy throwing them away.

Also unless you know the people in the store I don't think it is a
good idea for many other reasons such as re-organizations on the
store where they may move the CDs and then forget to put them back,
not wanting to have them up to not have to answer questions about
it....

So far given them out to co-workers has worked pretty well. Also will
be giving a number of them at school. On every case I will not leave
more than 5 if I don't know where they are going.



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