From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 6 20:30:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (dhcp97.lemis.com [192.109.197.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1BB37B407 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 20:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f6657cu00622; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:07:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:07:38 -0700 From: Greg Lehey To: Don Wilde Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Eric, you were right! Message-ID: <20010705220738.J327@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <3B44C80C.FF06D16C@Silver-Lynx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message