Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:35:43 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@dobox.com>, stephens@cnet.com, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maxtor picks Windows, dumps open source Message-ID: <3AA52DFF.BE87FDE8@softweyr.com> References: <001f01c0a61b$fbbbf1a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
> What I found most interesting was that according to Maxtor,
> this product is brand-new, thus it's never been touched by a
> customer before. It would have been more impressive if they
> had released this product onto the market with FreeBSD on it,
> and then withdrew it later. If that was the case, their
> competence with FreeBSD would give some credibility to their
> statements.
>
> However, as it stands now with this product, Maxtor has proved
> neither competence with FreeBSD, nor competence with Windows 2000.
> All they have shown is that they have been competent in
> using the threat of FreeBSD to extract additional licensing
> concessions from Microsoft. At this time I don't even see
> any proof that they were even running FreeBSD on their product.
The ran, and continue to run, FreeBSD on their earlier products.
> Rather than a denoucement of FreeBSD, if you read between the lines
> you will see that this is actually quite a feather in FreeBSD's
> cap. The story headline would have been more accurately written:
>
> "Microsoft gives up Client Licensing revenue to keep Maxtor
> from using FreeBSD on their new storage product"
Yes, quite an interesting spin. Would you like to write an article
on this? You're quite a good writer, you know. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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