> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, new_guy <byte8b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I mentioned this when I pre-ordered 4.4... I think folks thought that I was > > joking. Do prizes for pre-orders. Nothing fancy just something like this: > > > > 1. First 50 pre-orders win a T-Shirt and Theo signs the CD case. > > 2. The 100th pre-order wins a coffee mug. > > 3. 200th " > > 4. 300th " > > 5. Do something special for the 1000th. > > 6. etc. > > > > Those are just suggestions. The prizes could be anything. Just an idea to > > juice things up and hopefully sell more CDs. I find OpenBSD extremely useful > > and I want to see it grow and prosper... even in hard economic times. That's > > why I bring this up again. > > I don't so much like the "prize" idea, but maybe have developer signed > posters or CDs for extra $$$ and maybe in limited number of units per > release.
Oh yeah, that's a great idea! We can take a poster and ship it from Milk River to 20 developers around the world (say Netherlands, France, UK, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, Sweden, etc) step by step, and when each of them gets it he can pull it out of the increasingly ratty looking poster tube, sign it, slip it back -- add new postage -- and maybe the poster even eventually makes it somewhere without getting lost... and guess what! Someone can get it about 3 months later. It's going to be the same low price because we can have The Computer Shop and OpenBSD pay for all the shipping costs to get that poster all the way around the world! Naw, we'd charge all the postage to the person who is silly enough pay for a poster tube round-the-world trip, and we know the project would not one cent extra. Or how about we just keep trying to make high quality software, and hope that people support us for doing just that? I think that is a better plan.
