Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 07:58:31 -0800 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? Message-ID: <36BC66A7.6F362D1A@thuntek.net> References: <XFMail.990205203052.asmodai@wxs.nl> <36BC4994.B75F9675@thuntek.net> <19990206094941.B26488@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
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Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 05:54:28AM -0800, Don Wilde wrote: > > > My experience has been that the people we can reach are those who mourn > > the loss of DOS batch programming. > > Eek... Um... I came to BSD from a hardcore Mac background, and I know other > folks who have done that as well... My experience is that most old DOS fans > are now hooked into NT... <shudder> I still think it's the case that most > BSD people were initially exposed to it in college... > sure, but we need to attract those who have discovered that NT doesn't work! If we resign ourselves to expecting only college UNIXen, we're drastically limiting our potential, especially with M$ spending millions of $$$ on bribes to colleges. We need to uproot people from every other field out there! Why don't you see if you can make a list of arguments we can use to infect Mac users? I'd think they'd be the hardest to convert, inasmuch as they're the most GUI-and-app-centered. -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ _________ ___==__ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde dwilde1@thuntek.net [ = = ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo---oo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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