No offense taken.

I am new to the netbsd-advocacy list, so that statement is true.  It would seem odd to me to subscribe to an advocacy list of an OS I hadn't installed yet.

To be honest, I did buy NetBSD 1.4.1 from a provider on the NetBSD website (I don't remember who, but I don't think it was the NetBSD Mission).  I still have it, it came in a Verbatim CD-R box.  I don't remember why I didn't install it.  I do remember being nervous about giving my credit card number on the site that was selling it. 

I meant no disrespect or criticism of you or the NetBSD group.  Far from it, I've been looking for ways to contribute to the project (I contacted someone on your projects page about a Q&A website).  I was just pointing out that Wasabi provided a valuable service to me, and as long as you don't window up with a FreeBSD/BSDi/WindRiver sugar daddy situation, why not leverage their support?

BTW, if you can think of anything I could do to help out, let me know.  I don't think I'm up to kernel programming yet, but I'd like to chip in.

Michael Tackett

On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 01:54:02PM -0700, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 04:36:51PM -0400, Michael Tackett wrote:
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> > Anyhow, I've been monitoring the discussion about Wasabi sponsoring NetBSD booths.  I would like to point out that as an experiences programmer who's tried about every OS you could name (except Plan 9 and Inferno), the only way I would have been able to install NetBSD was by buying a CD from Wasabi.  And now I'm hooked.
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> Um, I don't mean to be rude, but I guess you've never looked on our web
> site for CDs, or read netbsd-announce.  The NetBSD Mission has been
> producing and selling CDs for years, and it's certainly not a secret.
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