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# Commercial Port Advocacy mini-HOWTO

## Doug Loss `dloss@seul.org`

v0.1, 29 December 1999

This document discusses methods that can be used to approach commercial software companies to convince them to port their programs to Linux.

## 1. Copyright Information

## 2. Why write this?

## 3. Other efforts

## 4. How to choose companies to approach

## 5. The art of cold contacting

## 6. What to say

## 7. My standard contact message

## 8. The final inspirational message

## 9. Resources

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