From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 19 7:13:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta3.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta3.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DAB114E44 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:13:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noslenj@swbell.net) Received: from swbell.net ([207.193.26.63]) by mta3.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FOL005488NG7E@mta3.rcsntx.swbell.net> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:06:56 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by swbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01398; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:21:11 -0600 (CST envelope-from noslenj@swbell.net) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:21:11 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson Subject: Re: funny repair remark In-reply-to: <200001181839.LAA09857@usr08.primenet.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: [snip] >IBM has also supported the idea of "FreeBSD certification" of >IBM systems; Doug Ambrisko spent some time validating a >machine, only to have the Advocacy group _not_ show up with a >FreeBSD certification logo. Interesting. I always wondered what FreeBSD would be like on an SP. Are they willing to open up information for MCA, SSA and other useful devices? Rephrased, will we benefit from the current Linux hysteria at IBM? As an aside, there was some discussion in the past about the functionally useless but politically beneficial business of certification. Has anything changed and is there such a thing? IBM's backing of a FreeBSD certification would carry a lot of weight in the corporate and govt worlds. Do you know what IBM is doing with the *BSDs? -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message