From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Mar 3 8:28:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13DA737B71C; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 08:28:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14ZF4I-0000Kw-00; Sat, 03 Mar 2001 09:39:42 -0700 Message-ID: <3AA11E4E.A3356338@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 09:39:42 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Sayer Cc: Garance A Drosihn , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's radar screen? References: <42534.983469460@verdi.nethelp.no> <3AA10ACA.7080104@quack.kfu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick Sayer wrote: > > I was particularly gratified that when the story got slashdotted, a lot > of support came from people who didn't run FreeBSD, but did feel our > pain - Linux folks are in this sense part of the same community used to > the same shoddy treatment by hardware vendors (if you're not running > Winblows, it's unsupported, so go away). They helped make the response > larger and noisier. They may be our banjo-playing cousins, but they ARE our cousins. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message