From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 17 14:50:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles340.castles.com [208.214.167.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1154110F61 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:50:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01220; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:44:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902172244.OAA01220@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Terry Lambert Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), mike@smith.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Walnut Creek, Where Are You? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:45:55 GMT." <199902171745.KAA15904@usr07.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:44:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > b) I have been working on this since mid-late last year. See a). > > > > And what has IBM said? Apparently, they are approaching SEVERAL > > Linux vendors, including small ones. But there's not a peep > > about FreeBSD. > > > > > c) Give us more money, or see a) again. > > > > For what would more money be used? > > The implication is that this is the mysterious "other platform" that > Jordan keeps referring to, and that one of the things Mike was hired > to do was "work on the port". No. I have too much on my plate altogether already. > I think you guys are talking about different things. > > I think that Mike is talking about the port, and Brett is talking > about selling IBM on FreeBSD. No, I'm talking about making FreeBSD run on IBM's x86 systems first, so that we can then sell them on it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message