From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 1 11:13: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A7037B718 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:12:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20716; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:12:45 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <42534.983469460@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <42534.983469460@verdi.nethelp.no> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:12:43 -0500 To: sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's radar screen? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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