From owner-freebsd-www Mon Aug 19 6:33:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B601737B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 06:33:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif1-6-cust12.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.3.230.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A1C43E42 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 06:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17gmee-000113-00; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:33:12 +0100 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:33:12 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Hal Howell Cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: You forgot one Message-ID: <20020819133312.GA3658@submonkey.net> References: <5EF4AE54-B377-11D6-8CBB-003065819D60@cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5EF4AE54-B377-11D6-8CBB-003065819D60@cox.net> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 08:27:12AM -0500, Hal Howell wrote: > Hi, > Seeing as how Mac OS X is FreeBSD based and runs on nearly every > PowerPC G3/G4 Macintosh computer I'm surprised Apple, Macintosh, > PowerPC G3/G4, and Mac OS X are no where mentioned in your list of > vendors hardware or software. Apple really goes out of its way to > mention FreeBSD! How about some prominent mention of one of your > greatest supporters? ;-D While we obviously appreciate everything Apple does for the project, FreeBSD does not currently run on Macintosh platforms (although there is a port making good progress), and Apple don't sell FreeBSD or software that runs on it. Therefore they don't really qualify as either a hardware or a software vendor, in my opinion. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message