From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 6 23:22:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C21237B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:22:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f277LxN93163; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:22:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Wes Peters" Cc: "Wes Peters" , , Subject: RE: Maxtor picks Windows, dumps open source Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:21:59 -0800 Message-ID: <004b01c0a6d7$4c8a85e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <3AA52DFF.BE87FDE8@softweyr.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----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