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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:07:38 -0700
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>
To:        Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Eric, you were right!
Message-ID:  <20010705220738.J327@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B44C80C.FF06D16C@Silver-Lynx.com>; from Don@Silver-Lynx.com on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:03:24PM -0600
References:  <3B44C80C.FF06D16C@Silver-Lynx.com>

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On Thursday,  5 July 2001 at 14:03:24 -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.

I've heard a number of rumblings about Wind River not living up to
their promises.  I don't know how accurate they are, but the idea that
they would dump us in favour of Linux is pretty much the most unlikely
one I can think of.

> 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? :-(

That's incompetence.

Greg
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