Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:30:54 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> To: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, webmaster@hotmail.com Subject: RE: "Powered by FreeBSD" logo at www.hotmail.com ?! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909062222110.269-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990905130722.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Will Andrews wrote: > On 05-Sep-99 Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > > (this letter is addressed to webmaster/webmistress of Hotmail, copy of it > > is posted to questions@FreeBSD.ORG and advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) > > > > Dear Webmaster, > > > > It's no surprize for me that Hotmail runs 2000 of servers with FreeBSD. > > I also has an account @ hotmail.com, so I'm interested person :-) > > > > What about putting "powered by FreeBSD" at the www.hotmail.com ?! > > I do not want this letter to be negative, but having that logo on the > > Web-page will show some respect to FreeBSD Inc. Also it will help to > > promote FreeBSD. > > You probably should have Bcc:'d advocacy@, rather than Cc'd. However, it's no > surprise to me that Hotmail does not openly announce that it runs FreeBSD, > because it is owned by Microsoft. and so what ? if Microsoft doesn't mind running FreeBSD & Solaris @ Hotmail, why not to have their logo's there ? > > Or they may just want to keep a "clean image" for their front-end webpage and > not confuse people who wonder WTF FreeBSD is. they have already "Microsoft" on that page. Why not to have "Powered by FreeBSD" there ? People ! Think positive ! ... and help each other. my point of view is 1. asking Hotmail people to move to NT _is_ bad. It's not my business what do they want to use, is it ? 2. putting that logo at www.hotmail.com will promote FreeBSD a bit. anyway they have "Microsoft" there already. > > -- > Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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