Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 15:22:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Derek Laufenberg <laufen@wi.net> To: Adam Turoff <AdamT@smginc.com> Cc: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>, "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Re[2]: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410151915.391A-100000@chardonnay.vineyard> In-Reply-To: <352E6110@smginc.com>
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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
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