On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Michael Chaney wrote: > 1. You need to get some inside information about this. I feel there's > about a 50% chance that the announcement of this was meant to pressure > Microsoft into giving them a deep discount on XP. I'm not sure that > they ever meant to sell pc's with no os.
You'd be surprise that people normally leave the os component out... why?...because you can easily get it...at no cost. > 2. Sending letters to Gloria will only get you so far. You need to get > face to face time with members of her staff. You also need to find a > news outlet that will carry your story. Your letters to her are easily > ignored; this needs to be public. And I'm not talking about tech/geek > news. I'm talking mainstream media. A large newspaper is a good > starting point. Let's identify them... Jerry Liao is out of the question, microsoft baby Chin Wong would be a good one Erwin Lemuel Oliva is always dying for a story Alan Robles? Dominique Cimafranca who else? -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
