Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:54:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> To: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: RE: "Powered by FreeBSD" logo at www.hotmail.com ?! Message-ID: <14292.35940.914193.704684@celery.zuhause.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909062222110.269-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su> References: <XFMail.990905130722.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909062222110.269-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>
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Ilia Chipitsine writes: > and so what ? if Microsoft doesn't mind running FreeBSD & Solaris @ > Hotmail, why not to have their logo's there ? Please stop cc'ing webmaster@hotmail.com. The reason why is that Microsoft is unwilling to advertise that they're using a competitor's product (and, as far as Microsoft is concerning, both Solaris and FreeBSD are competitors to NT). To publically acknowledge it would be tantamount to Microsoft admitting that NT is not the best platform for some applications, which is totally contrary to all of their marketing and advertising for the last 5 years. It doesn't matter that Microsoft bought Hotmail, and is just using the setup that was working when they bought it, it's part of Microsoft now, and has to toe the Microsoft party line. Just drop this thread. It's like asking the Russian Communist Party to publically state that Boris Yeltsin has been the best prime minister that Russia/USSR has had in the last 50 years. It's not going to happen and asking is just going to make people angry with you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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