From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Nov 29 9:23:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1480637B402 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 141Aw5-0000AS-00; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:22:25 -0700 Message-ID: <3A253B51.758D7AF9@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:22:25 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nicholas Basila Cc: Greg Lehey , jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads References: <000701c05958$09651ef0$3103000a@gaston> <20001129154748.A47200@echunga.lemis.com> <3A2536A7.EA05719B@epcot.revenio.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nicholas Basila wrote: > > I think that IBM ultimately wants to sell these laptops any way they can ... > That means with non-MS operating systems. I just wonder how long it will > take. Don't be silly. If they think it will generate more support calls than revenue, they will step over us silly BSD users in a heartbeat, chasing after the next 50,000-unit corporate sale. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message