From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 17 19:36:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E7837B424 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:36:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3I2aDO63834; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:36:13 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3ADCDCA7.A01F5F40@acuson.com> References: <3ADCDCA7.A01F5F40@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:36:11 -0400 To: David Johnson , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:15 PM -0700 4/17/01, David Johnson wrote: >Today's announcement of the abandonment of Slackware caught >me by surprise. All Slackware employees laid off. Slackware >was *profitable* for Walnut Creek and BSDi. I think they've >lost more in good will than they will gain. [etc] Note that this mailing list is for discussing ways to advocate ("promote") FreeBSD. It is not like an advocacy newsgroup in the land of usenet, where all heated debates are banished to. This particular topic is probably better suited to freebsd-chat. Maybe that's not right either, and it's probably not fair for me to suggest that since I don't follow freebsd-chat... :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message