From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 10 13:19:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29551 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 13:19:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wi.net (wi.net [204.95.193.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29538 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 13:18:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from laufen@localhost) Received: from chardonnay.vineyard (207.250.150.33) by wi.net with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1b5); Fri, 10 Apr 1998 15:18:27 -0500 Received: from localhost (derek@localhost) by chardonnay.vineyard (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA00428; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 15:22:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from laufen@localhost) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 15:22:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Derek Laufenberg X-Sender: derek@chardonnay.vineyard To: Adam Turoff cc: Frank Pawlak , "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Re[2]: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" In-Reply-To: <352E6110@smginc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Adam Turoff wrote: > > Could we ask Walnut Creek to be the FreeBSD sugar daddy? Caldera, > RedHat and SuSE make money off of selling CDs but frequently drop off > a case of current or near-current CDs for user groups to give away. I > think > I picked up 3 CDs of Caldera OpenLinux 1.1 from a recent > tradeshow - one from LXNY and one or two from the Caldera booth. > RedHat was there and may have had some CDs to give away too. > > (Remember, Linux CDs make great coasters!) You mean Windows - converting a Linux user is much easier than converting a windows user. > > Walnut Creek is shipping 2.2.6 RSN, and in an ideal world there would > be no inventory of 2.2.5 left. Realistically, there must be a few > cases of CDs collecting dust or waiting to be destroyed. I for one > would volunteer to be one of a group of Johnny FreeBSDseeds around > the world giving away FreeBSD-(N-1)-RELEASE CDs. Worst case, > it might get installed and Walnut Creek would have someone > buying the Book/CD combo of FreeBSD-(N)-RELEASE and possibly > N+1. > > Hell. If Walnut Creek doesn't want to do it, why not just set up a > PO Box to send your recently-obsoleted CD sets for > evangelical redistribution? I give away my old release disks to friends all the time. Its a good way to get converts. > > Evangelism doesn't _need_ to cost lots of money or become a jihad. > > The Linux movement is doing some things well. If we can't learn > from them it's our own damn fault. > > -- Adam. Agreed. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Derek Laufenberg Laufenberg Consulting laufen@wi.net Networking, DICOM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message