From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 8 1:42:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mooseriver.com (erie.mooseriver.com [205.166.121.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781FB37B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 01:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch@mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by mooseriver.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f688g1t71024; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 01:42:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 01:42:01 -0700 From: Josef Grosch To: "E.B. Dreger" Cc: Jordan Hubbard , rh@matriplex.com, brian@Awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com Subject: Re: Authentic FreeBSD (Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral) Message-ID: <20010708014201.A70981@mooseriver.com> Reply-To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com References: <20010707202716O.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 08:33:04AM +0000 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 On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 08:33:04AM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 20:27:16 -0700 > > From: Jordan Hubbard > > > such. It's often the case that actually tracking the effectiveness > > of, say, $500 towards some theoretically worthy cause costs you > > thousands of dollars in man-hours. Heck, If somebody tried to donate > > a million bucks to the foundation right now, I'd actually expect the > > current directors to probably scream and run away. :-) > > How about... > > 1. Programming contests with prizes (results committed) > 2. Buying publicity (surely newscasters can be bribed) > 3. Distributing as many CDs as AOL (might need more than $1M) How about CD #1 as an insert into a computer mag like Byte or Computer Shopper. Better yet, put a label on CD #1 that says "Hot porn reader inside!" then bundle with a computer mag. Thousands would install just to see our porn reader. We just don't tell them that the porn reader is xv ;-) For the humor impaired, that was a joke. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 4.3 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | www.bafug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message