From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 26 19:26:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19819 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 19:26:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.pacificnet.net (polaris.pacificnet.net [207.171.0.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19810 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 19:26:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bear@pacificnet.net) Received: from ale (pm3g-9.pacificnet.net [207.171.35.58]) by polaris.pacificnet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA19692 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 19:25:56 -0700 (PDT) env-from (bear@pacificnet.net) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980526193050.0069c08c@pacificnet.net> X-Sender: bear@pacificnet.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 19:30:50 -0700 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Joey Garcia Subject: Hardware Partners ad Advocates Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was wondering... What would it take to get hardware companies like Dell, Gateway, and Micron to sell their server products with FreeBSD installed (or just on a cd for the customer to install) instead of Windows NT? What comes into play with trying to do that? Prove that FreeBSD is worthy? Or are those hardware vendors afraid that Microsoft would retaliate? (I'm not sure up on the MS vs. DOJ subject) How much trouble would it be for them to have FreeBSD as on option? (I'm sure they can possibly have other options as well - BSDi, Linux, Solarix x86) Anyways, I was just wondering. Any comments, opinions, or answers? Joey Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message