Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:35:17 -0700 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 Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001128093226.048f4cf0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <000701c05958$09651ef0$3103000a@gaston> References: <E50E76D112D8D311907E00508B63B941BE8F6F@minnie.revenio.com>
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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-advocacy" in the body of the message
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