Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 17:04:16 -0400 (EDT) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maybe it's time to use Microsoft's tactics Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980801170332.8439C-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <199808011816.MAA27458@lariat.lariat.org>
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On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > According to a recent article by Dan Gillmor at > > http://www.sjmercury.com/columnists/gillmor/docs/dg073198.htm > > (See the bit at the bottom), Microsoft's PR agency assigns an "owner" to > every article it perceives as negative. This person is responsible for > contacting the author and doing MS evangelism. > > Perhaps it's time to fight fire with fire, doing this for both Microsoft > AND Linux. Every time an article mentions Linux and not FreeBSD, or > mentions problems with NT, the author should be contacted with an > admonishment to try FreeBSD. On the other hand, authors who DO mention > FreeBSD should be encouraged to do more of it. The effort could be > organized through this list. > > How about it? Something like this might work if it were possible to include sample CD's. Just a thought. I'm guessing it would be to WC's advantage to support something like this. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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