From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 6 10:24:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6FE37B71A for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:24:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14aMJD-00008M-00; Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:35:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3AA52DFF.BE87FDE8@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:35:43 -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: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Wes Peters , stephens@cnet.com, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maxtor picks Windows, dumps open source References: <001f01c0a61b$fbbbf1a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > What I found most interesting was that according to Maxtor, > this product is brand-new, thus it's never been touched by a > customer before. It would have been more impressive if they > had released this product onto the market with FreeBSD on it, > and then withdrew it later. If that was the case, their > competence with FreeBSD would give some credibility to their > statements. > > However, as it stands now with this product, Maxtor has proved > neither competence with FreeBSD, nor competence with Windows 2000. > All they have shown is that they have been competent in > using the threat of FreeBSD to extract additional licensing > concessions from Microsoft. At this time I don't even see > any proof that they were even running FreeBSD on their product. The ran, and continue to run, FreeBSD on their earlier products. > Rather than a denoucement of FreeBSD, if you read between the lines > you will see that this is actually quite a feather in FreeBSD's > cap. The story headline would have been more accurately written: > > "Microsoft gives up Client Licensing revenue to keep Maxtor > from using FreeBSD on their new storage product" Yes, quite an interesting spin. Would you like to write an article on this? You're quite a good writer, you know. ;^) -- "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