Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:21:59 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Wes Peters" <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: "Wes Peters" <wes@dobox.com>, <stephens@cnet.com>, <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Maxtor picks Windows, dumps open source Message-ID: <004b01c0a6d7$4c8a85e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3AA52DFF.BE87FDE8@softweyr.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: wes [mailto:wes]On Behalf Of Wes Peters >Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:36 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Wes Peters; stephens@cnet.com; freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Maxtor picks Windows, dumps open source > > >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. ;^) > Possibly, possibly. ;-) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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