From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jul 7 7:23:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nwlynx.network-lynx.net (nwlynx.network-lynx.net [63.122.185.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D06C37B403; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 07:23:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Don@Silver-Lynx.com) Received: from Silver-Lynx.com (doze-1.network-lynx.net [63.122.185.106]) by nwlynx.network-lynx.net (8.11.1/8.9.3/Who.Cares) with ESMTP id f67EO1K92071; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 08:24:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from Don@Silver-Lynx.com) Message-ID: <3B471B61.23937991@Silver-Lynx.com> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 08:23:29 -0600 From: Don Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Eric, you were right! References: <3B44C80C.FF06D16C@Silver-Lynx.com> <20010705220738.J327@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. > Agreed, but to dump our CDs into their hands and funnel FreeBSDmall visitors there is pretty cheap. > > 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. > Isn't it though? Wind River survives in the embedded world because their software is so pricey the government thinks it must be worth something, and therefore we Americans have the privilege of paying for it with our taxes. -- Don Wilde http://www.Silver-Lynx.com Silver Lynx Embedded Microsystems Architects 2218 Southern Bl. Ste. 12 Rio Rancho, NM 87124 505-891-4175 FAX 891-4185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message