From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 27 03:05:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA21626 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 03:05:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from main_sd1.artnetonline.com ([194.75.26.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA21594 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 03:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuehl@lgk.de) Received: from di18hh.bonline.net (di18hh.bonline.net [194.75.27.146]) by main_sd1.artnetonline.com (NTMail 3.03.0013/1.abqk) with ESMTP id va610631 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 12:04:18 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199805270535.WAA00712@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 12:05:00 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: kuehl@lgk.de From: Lars Gerhard Kuehl To: Amancio Hasty Subject: Re: Hardware Partners ad Advocates Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Joey Garcia , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-May-98 Amancio Hasty wrote: >> > 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 >> >> An act of god. >> > > Or an Act from the DOJ 8) > > Amancio Maybe neither, if one wouldn't ask the companies but their retailers and those could rely on classical, technical support. Even a simple FreeBSD/OEM CDROM priced at $10 could be successful. Lars /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Ph: +49 40 54768010 Lars Gerhard Kuehl Fx: +49 40 54768012 Mo: +49 171 9307085 EDV-Beratung Em: kuehl@lgk.de BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message