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NetBSD Online Store Opens
jschauma writes "The NetBSD Project now has an online store where you can indulge yourself in some merchandise-mania and at the same time support your favorite OS. All profits from the store will of course go directly to the NetBSD Foundation; at the moment, the available items include t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, clocks, mousepads, logo pads and tote bags. The sale of printed versions of The NetBSD Guide and the pkgsrc Guide is currently being evaluated. For other ways to make a tax-deductible (in the US) donation, please see the donations page."
Wouldn't it be better to open a generic BSD store instead?
I would think that you could make more money that way, as there are more BSD fans than Net-BSD fans.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Posters of the deamon mascott. Large format. Is there any place to buy them?
Clicky Clicky
Pffth, some operating systems have given up counting the system architectures they support.
If you want a real portability dicksize contest, you should count the number of CPU ISAs you support.
alpha, arm, cris, frv, h8300, i386, ia64, m32r, m68k, mips, parisc, ppc, ppc64, s390, sh, sh64, sparc, sparc64, v850, amd64
Almost every post here has been a take off BSD is dying.
But I can't blame them. While cafepress is nice to help the person selling money, the quality of the product is horrible. I'd rather give my money directly to the project than waste an extra $10 on a crappily screenprinted hat or mousepad.
Just skip it. Cafepress sucks.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Does anyone actually wear clothing like this? I personally can't stand big logos or clothes that represent a non-athletic company, geographic location, or event, no matter what the logo is. I just can't picture myself ever wearing clothing about an OS outside of my toolshed, or at some that-os meeting.
I can understand a mug, a coaster, or a bumper sticker (on a beater pickup), but a shirt? I think it would be better to make things that actually relate to an OS, like a computer chassis, or those hard DVD covers, or _something_.
If I got OS-apparel as a present, I would wear it when I am working on a vehicle, or working in the yard.
This is very sad that most of posts in BSD stories these days are nothing more than the reposts of old and boring BSD-dying trolls. So when I saw this story I decided to post something at least slightly more interesting, i.e. an information about the little known Debian GNU/NetBSD project and links to webpages describing countless platforms supported by NetBSD. I also expressed my sincere admiration towards the NetBSD team for developing such an amazingly portable system. If you take a look at the entire thread you'll see that it was the only post that didn't say that (1) BSD is dying, (2) NetBSD store is a bad idea (BSD mall is better), or (3) those t-shirts are ugly. Unfortunately, utterly incompetent moderators blinded by their pathetic fervor of down-moderation madness have moderated this post all the way down to -1, Troll in a matter of minutes. You can see for yourself. Needless to say, because of such a childish behaviour I am very unlikely to post anything informative about BSD in the future. BSD may not be dying, but thanks to such infantile and dumb moderators any even remotely interesting discussions about BSD on Slashdot surely are. Very sad.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
Ahh, so that's why BSD developers smell like piss.
I'm sure some of you may find this interesting: http://www.bsdfreak.org/modules/news/article.php?s toryid=83
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$15.99 for a coffee mug?