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	"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, www@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD News: Force10
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Matt Olander wrote:

> On Thursday 15 February 2007 8:26 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>> NetBSD:
>>
>> http://www.netbsd.org/Foundation/press/force10.html
>> http://www.force10networks.com/products/ftos.asp
>> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/021407-force10-open-source.html
>> (including a comment that says they are fixing it from FreeBSD to
>> NetBSD).
>>
>> but these say FreeBSD:
>>
>> http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=8042&pagtype=sam
>> echan
>>
>> so what's the real story?  Looks like somebody got it wrong (FreeBSD) and 
>> it propigated.
>
> Oh, ouch! Thanks for the catch Warner. I'll double-triple-check but yeah, I 
> can't imagine the NetBSD Foundation issueing a press release if they didn't 
> already know ;-)

That said, the press release thing is not a bad idea.  It would be really nice 
if we could get, say, NetApp to do a joint PR with the Foundation on their 
switch to FreeBSD.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge