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Subject:    Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a product
From:       Alex Zepeda <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date:       1999-08-07 1:41:10
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On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote:

> Newcomers periodically question the choice of Chucky Daemon as
> FreeBSD's mascot. The resolution of these discussions is invariably a
> suggestion that the person asking "didn't get it."

Chucky is that satanic doll from those movies that comes back to life and
kills everyone; "the daemon", "beastie", "that furry red thing" or
whatever you choose to call it, is not named Chucky :)

>  - An attractive box with heavy contents adds $20 to software's perceived
> value.

Nah, I really don't think so.  Even so, getting a better desgin on the
package, really would not hurt in any way.  I don't think as poorly as you
do of the current CD packaging (having never seen it in person); but I do
feel there's always room for improvement.

P.S. A really neat idea might be a boxed Oracle distribution of some sort.
But oh wait, they've got Linux division; not a FreeBSD one.  Hell some
sort of distribution including some big comercial package of choice would
really be neat (Oracle 8, Now with FreeBSD).

- alex

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