Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:12:43 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's radar screen? Message-ID: <p05010400b6c44a121de0@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <42534.983469460@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <42534.983469460@verdi.nethelp.no>
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At 6:57 PM +0100 3/1/01, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: >Anyway, I just wanted to mention on -hackers that it's >possible FreeBSD is starting to show up on IBM's radar >screen. I think it's way too early to conclude anything >yet, but it's interesting nevertheless. I think the recent debacle with the T20 and A20 laptops actually helped to get us noticed. Here someone in IBM probably made a dumb programming mistake which happened to make freebsd unusable on their hardware, and they got a whole bunch of their *customers* (owners of one of these laptops) beating them up for the problem. Not freebsd.org making vague promises of sales based on freebsd, but actual customers using freebsd on IBM hardware. IBM wants to sell as much hardware as they can, and so they are bound to be interested when they notice that some of their customers are using freebsd. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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