From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 28 6:13:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.thuntek.net (mail2.thuntek.net [206.206.98.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C8114E5E for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:13:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-027.thuntek.net [207.66.52.27]) by mail2.thuntek.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA41202; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:13:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Message-ID: <3891A457.61BCBEAA@thuntek.net> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:14:47 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@thuntek.net Organization: Silver Lynx X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pat Lynch Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMN kicks Augustin's butt. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pat Lynch wrote: > > http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/01/27/1118251.shtml > > near the bottom of the page there are comments by StarMedia employees > regarding the fact that Augustin said we buy consulting from them and use > Linux. (specific comments by firestarter666, ryan_nelson, benedict, > Cellechan). > > We essentially made a public announcement about buying VA boxes and usign > FreeBSD on them. > > -Pat > ... and you actually got an apology from them. Good going! I liked the way the response generated genuine queries about BSD, too, unlike the earlier posting with the nasty comment about stability. :-))) What a mess /. is, though. I stay away from it because of all the crap you wade through. I just interviewed with Intel/Rio Rancho yesterday. What an awesome pile of money!!!! -- Donald Wilde "Linking Minds and Micros" ================= S i l v e r L y n x =================== PMB 117, 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd SE v: 505-771-0709 f: 771-1356 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 web: http://www.Silver-Lynx.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message