Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 20:30:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copyright Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.980613195638.209A-100000@foo.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <358200EC.9EDAB78A@softweyr.com>
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[cc's trimmed] On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Wes Peters wrote: > You're exactly right, the charter of this mailing lists is more in > line with the "technical evangelists" at Apple in the past. I > hope we're somewhat less rabid (and more reasoned) than the Kawasaki > Corps, though. I concur. > A quick trip through an on-line thesarus turned up nothing of real help. > "FreeBSD Missionaries" conjures up visions of a large stew pot with Jack > Velte hot-tubbing his way to millions; not exactly the light *I* want > to protray us in. ;^) "FreeBSD Advocates" sounds a little too much > like a software licensing law firm. Sigh. Perhaps we should adopt > a Klingon word or something? An obscure latin phrase? Hmm... 1/2 kidding on all of these, but advocacy has rather wrong connotations: 1. FreeBSD Publicity 2. FreeBSD Marketing 3. FreeBSD Promotion 4. FreeBSD Strategic Market Initiatives For those of you not subscribed to -newbies, someone just asked "what do you guys do with FreeBSD?" and it's generated some very nice testimonials. If we were to post those on a web page... Another very positive mention of FreeBSD on InfoWorld Electric. Nicholas Petreley says nice things about FreeBSD, particularly WC's documentation for the set: http://forums.infoworld.com/threads/get.cgi?59820 bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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