From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 1 7:24:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mukappa.home.com (c576194-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com [24.20.97.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6BFF37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:24:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mukappa.home.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mukappa.home.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eB1FNxi20342; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:24:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from mupi@mknet.org) From: Mike Porter Reply-To: mupi@mknet.org To: Danny Braniss , clefevre@cybercable.fr Subject: Re: Can this really be true? FreeBSD not working on IBM T20's Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:23:59 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.94] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: FreeBSD Stable References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0012010823590C.11309@mukappa.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, Danny Braniss wrote: > In message you write: > > }http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4QHLS4.html > > Scary stuff! > > i know that i might be delirious (i'm running a 38.5C feever at the > moment), but if the BIOSes out there start screwing up non MS/IBM/etc file > systems, will that mark the begining of the end for open-source os? > > danny It would appear to be one way to accomplish that. Oddly enough, of course, IBM ostensibly supports LInux, even on some of those machines, which is technically OSS as well. Personally, I think thw whole thing reeks of "big company thinks they can do whatever they want" (IBM has a history of that, as do Xerox (gee, I wonder where there stock price is today...) and Intel, among others). In the end, of course, this is exactly the attitude that nearly brought IBM to ruin the first time around, and if they continue it will undoubtedly lead to real ruin the next time around.... mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjonwo8ACgkQZ7GovTQbIm5uIgCeOKHftqhoqVewF6gKdH0+xJDT L70AnjGy8KDv+YVouHEk7WbJ+mPfL/Wo =esV7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message