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Date:      Sat, 06 Feb 1999 05:54:28 -0800
From:      Don Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is there a reseller program?
Message-ID:  <36BC4994.B75F9675@thuntek.net>
References:  <XFMail.990205203052.asmodai@wxs.nl>

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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> [snip]
> As far as the desktop goes, in my understanding it's merely what I
> proposed/said earlier, to ease entry into FreeBSD, but it will still make
> it necessary for the user to read.
> 
> If ye have suggestion as to make it evident to the user that they need to
> be bothered to actually try to understand what the computer is trying to
> `say' through the programs, then I'm all ears.
> 

My experience has been that the people we can reach are those who mourn
the loss of DOS batch programming. I sent my brother-in-law FreeBSD and
the Complete FreeBSD. Nothing happened. I sent him a book on 'Learning
the BASH shell', and he got it.

> There is just one category of people we can never help: the lazy ones.
> 

Never let the government get in the way of natural selection...
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