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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>
> 



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