From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 25 12:46:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.phx.gblx.net (smtp10.phx.gblx.net [206.165.6.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9828437B401; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:46:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp10.phx.gblx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA118998; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:45:52 -0700 Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp10.phx.gblx.net, id smtpdQlUCEa; Thu Jan 25 13:45:40 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA27797; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:45:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200101252045.NAA27797@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Open Source Development Laboratory ... To: rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG (Robert Watson) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:45:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-core@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Robert Watson" at Jan 25, 2001 02:50:19 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 2) We can try to identify sponsors on their current list willing to push > for a greater FreeBSD focus (IBM, for example, by virtue of Whistle), or > we can identify companies we would like to have join the Open Source > Development Labs. Possible targets here might include Apple and BSDi, > who might benefit from library and application work, and improve the focus > from our perspective. FYI, Last December, IBM committed $1B for marketing of Linux. They also have committed 1500 engineers. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message