Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:06:26 -0000 From: "gaurdian gaurdian" <gaurdian_1@hotmail.com> To: brett@lariat.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <F279UH2s3CfuHS7tszy00007619@hotmail.com>
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So what: 1) They have no obligation to support FreeBSD. 2) If you dont like it, dont buy their Laptops... I for one, have no issues with them. 3) I have FreeBSD running fine on my Thinkpad 600E and have had it there for the last year. >From: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org> >To: "Nicholas Basila" <nbasila@epcot.revenio.com>, " " ><jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se> >CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, " " ><freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> >Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer >Thinkpads >Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:35:17 -0700 > >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 > >> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > >> > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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