Re: [ News - Non Commercial ] Info Required

[Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ach so!  Atul and Suresh are onto a good thing here!

Can I suggest that Sarin give as many SuSE boxes as he can to schools
and colleges in various cities?  He can cite the local LUG as the
volunteer support contacts for installing/troubleshooting of this
product.  We would be very glad to help out educational institutions
setting up and running Linux, Sarin would get accolades from both the
Linux and the educational communities, and Linux would have moved One
Step Further Towards World Domination.

Sarin, please do consider this mode.  You might need to do a bit of
selling in the cover note to the school (all the Computer teachers
I've talked to have been quite Winduhs-struck), but the combination of
a free OS along with free support should be hard to resist; you might
like to add buzzwords like ``cutting edge'' and other such cra^H^H^H
motivational phrases <g> to get them hooked.  If you're giving away
Pro versions of SuSE with all the databases, etc it will be a sure
winner.  Please also consider a more free license for edu allowing
them to make multiple copies and installations from a single CD set.

If you like we can draw up lists of schools and contacts at the LUG
level and send them to you, after which you could contact them
directly.

Regards,

-- Raju

>>>>> "Suresh" == Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx> writes:

    Suresh> Raju Mathur rearranged electrons thusly:
    >> I'm OK with this as long as we don't become spam targets in the
    >> future.  I guess even if we do our intrepid Suresh
    >> Ramasubramanian will ensure the ``purity of the electron
    >> waves'' by going into BOFH mode instantly :)

    Suresh> You know, if someone gave their mail id to an org with a
    Suresh> request to be added to a maling list ('keep me updated on
    Suresh> your k3wl products') then I wouldn't call it spam.

    Suresh> On the other hand, I'd suggest using a "throwaway" mail id
    Suresh> (set up a hotmail id just for the purpose of giving
    Suresh> anybody who _requires_ your mail id when you download
    Suresh> software / get some freebie etc).  Such an ID can be
    Suresh> junked without any hesitation, any time you want.

    >> BTW, is that the latest release of SuSE?
 
    Suresh> you know very well it's not - this is more like a
    Suresh> "clearance sale" I think (as new stocks of SuSE 7.1 have
    Suresh> arrived, leaving these dudes with an inventory of older
    Suresh> SuSE stuff).

    Suresh> They do have a good idea - but as Atul pointed out it'd be
    Suresh> better if said CDs were given to various .edus, NGOs etc
    Suresh> who could do with cost effective computing solutions
    Suresh> [hell, sorry for sounding like a M$ marketroid ... had
    Suresh> this salesman bugging us for quite some time yesterday] :(

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Raju Mathur          raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://kandalaya.org/