Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:24:04 -0700 From: "Jason S. Anderson" <jason.anderson@windriver.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Robert Hough <rch@acidpit.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: winDriver selling fbsd Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010625091425.032334a0@mail.wrs.com> In-Reply-To: <20010625170431.E69225@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010625105630.A47491@acidpit.org> <200106250254.VAA26281@corserv.corserv.com> <xzpbsnd184p.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010625153535.A69225@lpt.ens.fr> <xzpae2wej2c.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010625162944.D69225@lpt.ens.fr> <20010625105630.A47491@acidpit.org>
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I think there are a few good observations in all of this, particularly about what is the 'right' way for Wind River (not winDriver or windriver :) to position or link to FreeBSD content from the web. A few things I have a hard time disagreeing about: - It's not right to have bsdi.com simply redirect to the BSD/OS product page. That's an oversimplification, and a partial lack of internal education about what 'bsdi' represents. I've already sent a note to the webmaster, so that should be remedied. (How, I don't quite know yet.) - Reactions to the customer emailing earlier this week have been pretty varied, ranging from "thank you for contacting me!" to "what gives you the right?". That seems statistically consistent, and overall the response has been very positive, but it doesn't mean that we can't learn from and improve over time. - No, Wind isn't owned by Microsoft. I think I can hear the shivers from all of the engineers from my desk... :) I know that lots of people are taking a wait-and-see approach with the whole Wind/FreeBSD thing; I think I speak for many folks when I say that we very much appreciate that. The important thing to take away from this particular thread, though, is that nothing is set in stone: if there's something about web sites or the way that Wind is dealing with you that bothers you, it is absolutely your right and _responsibility_ to let people know. The only way that integrations (and relationship-building in general) works is through open and honest communication. My $0.02, -Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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