From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 6 1:37: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-93.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8889137B403 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 01:36:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6EFD066C4D; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 01:36:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 01:36:57 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Don Wilde Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Eric, you were right! Message-ID: <20010706013656.B48685@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3B44C80C.FF06D16C@Silver-Lynx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B44C80C.FF06D16C@Silver-Lynx.com>; from Don@Silver-Lynx.com on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:03:24PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:03:24PM -0600, Don Wilde wrote: > Looks like Eric Wayte was right in his premonition about Wind River > screwing us over. Their freebsdmall website is now a link to something > called BSD Central, and their phone box says 'Welcome to Linux > Central'.... and of course nobody's in in Customer Service. >=20 > I ordered a BSD Desktop direct from freebsdmall.com -- at full list -- > because their (old) site claimed it would come with 4.3 CDs. Guess who's > got another obsolete set of 4.1 CDs sitting on his hands? :-(=20 I think people need to think twice before condemning WRS as Satan's newest earth-bound franchisee; they've just bought a whole bunch of assets and are no doubt still trying to figure out just what to do with them. Polite feedback to the relevant people about what they could do better may well work wonders :-) Kris --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7RXioWry0BWjoQKURAiqsAKDBCzNRD56BcY4jtDcmQram6EHrlACeJKQp d2gs6BaSwfxJ9yEHXsk8n3Y= =7Cf5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message