Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:30:56 -0800 From: Don Wilde <don@partsnow.com> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Coming out Message-ID: <34E877D0.E4A72BA1@partsnow.com> References: <34E8688E.76A93CD7@partsnow.com> <19980216122023.02358@vmunix.com>
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> > I would like to see if anyone is interested in joining together to take > > out a large ad in Infoworld to promote FreeBSD. I myself would > > contribute $100 cash to the effort, and I think if each of you consider > > the benefit to our code base if even one percent of the Micros**t > > sysadmin world considers switching and 1% of them actually contributes. > > FreeBSD (and the rest of the freeware base) would benefit enormously > > [although we might need to clone Doug and Greg and Amancio and probably > > a few others :)] > > How much does an ad cost? I'm guessing that a full page ad is pretty > pricey.. Don't know. They're closed today, unlike us werking fools, uh, folks. I would suspect it's about 4x what a subscriber-paid rag is, about $5-10K, maybe? So we take a 1/4 page, the editorial ripples would add tremendous multiplication of value. I feel pretty strongly about this, because I know what the benefit of doubling our serious-sysadmin-user base would be. Maybe we could also get some of the other ORGs and big users to contribute in return for a logo insertion, like our good buddies YAHOO, and maybe even Oracle (if the rumors are true... John?). As I said once before, I'm going to be speaking at NetWorld+InterOp in May, and I urge all of you to find whatever soapboxes you can. Now, before M$ can release NT5 and 98, and while the DOJ is giving them incredibly bad press, is our time to make some real advances. It's to all our benefit. > Win95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to > an an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, > written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -UGU Gawd, that's rich. :) :) :) -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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