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Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads 
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If anyone listening to this lives near Brett, we'd all appreciate it if 
you'd drop by and talk him into taking up the medication again.

Thanks.

> IBM's tactics are the old "bait and switch." They want users to
> move to AIX, not FreeBSD or Linux. Unfortunately, their PR people
> have pretended to jump on the Linux bandwagon in a big way, and
> this hurts the BSDs.
> 
> --Brett
> 
> At 09:21 AM 11/28/2000, Nicholas Basila wrote:
>   
> >Hmmm,
> >
> >    Well, I never liked their laptops, anyway. I'm surprised they don't
> >support RH Linux. I'm glad to know that they support all the lousy MS
> >operating systems ...
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jonas Bulow [mailto:jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 9:32 AM
> >> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; freebsd-mobie@freebsd.org;
> >> freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
> >> Subject: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer
> >> Thinkpads
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4QHLS4.html
> >>
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