From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 12 12:18:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154F537B405 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA27237; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:18:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010612131552.045a6c90@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:18:01 -0600 To: Rich Morin , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Evan Leibovitch on BSD In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010612123127.045a6690@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010612123127.045a6690@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:03 PM 6/12/2001, Rich Morin wrote: >Actually, I think he raises an interesting point. IBM surely knows about >BSD; why, then, are they spending $2B or so on Linux. Part of the issue >could be that Linux has mindshare, but I'm not sure that's the whole of >it. Anyone who has ever worked with, or in, an organization such as IBM knows that PR is everything. Especially at IBM -- a company which has been marketing-driven (sometimes to its own detriment) since Watson founded it. IBM does use BSD internally, but its Linux efforts get the hype merely because Linux seems trendy. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message