Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 08:58:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Nicholas Basila" <nbasila@epcot.revenio.com>, jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se, 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: <200011281658.eASGwoF25493@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:35:17 MST." <4.3.2.7.2.20001128093226.048f4cf0@localhost>
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If anyone listening to this lives near Brett, we'd all appreciate it if you'd drop by and talk him into taking up the medication again. Thanks. > 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 > -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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