From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Sep 21 8:56:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from www.menzor.dk (menzor.org [195.249.147.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5100337B43E for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sos (userhost.mdes.dk [130.228.127.200]) by www.menzor.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA20284 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:07:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@seeberg.dk) Message-ID: <015e01c023ed$048350f0$deff58c1@sos> From: "Morten Seeberg" To: Subject: Re: Just Imagine.. Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:57:23 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I donīt think M$ would ever do this, theyīre doing just fine right now, if you look at the growth of NT :) And NT is actually getting better all the time. Whether BSD would benefit from a large corporate backing, hard to say, one should always be carefull about not getting to BIG :) I think the best thing would be if IBM, Compaq, HP and Dell would at least acknowledge the fact the FreeBSD is here to stay, and that itīs worth spending some R&D time on, so that we could get some vendor support for their hardware and other products. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /\/\orten $eeberg, Systems Consultant @ Merkantildata - Enterprise Solutions #echo 'System Administrators suck :)' > /dev/console To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message