From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jul 24 11:14:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7DB814BC9 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id DAA16221; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 03:12:21 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <379A01EE.75D7A50D@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 03:11:58 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Kehlet Cc: FreeBSD-Advocacy Subject: Re: SGI's new Linux server... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steven Kehlet wrote: > > We had a guy from SGI at our company talking about these new Linux > boxes, and I asked if they were considering looking at BSD at all (with > the usual mention of some of the merits of BSD vs. GPL licensing). He > brushed me off immediately with a "No, we're not at all interested in > looking at BSD." More evidence, methinks, that this is just as much a > popularity contest for a flailing company as a technical one ;-). "I just wished all these people asking about a BSD version would just shut up. Can't they understand that there is simply no market for it?" ;-> -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Your usefulness to my realm ended the day you made it off Hustaing alive." -- Sun Tzu Liao to his ex-finacee, Isis Marik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message