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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:19:19 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-www@freebsd.org, marketing@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, www@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD News: Force10
Message-ID:  <20070216071812.P83539@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200702152132.04256.matt@ixsystems.com>
References:  <200702152007.46398.matt@ixsystems.com> <20070215.212617.58457674.imp@bsdimp.com> <200702152132.04256.matt@ixsystems.com>

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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Matt Olander wrote:

> On Thursday 15 February 2007 8:26 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>> NetBSD:
>>
>> http://www.netbsd.org/Foundation/press/force10.html
>> http://www.force10networks.com/products/ftos.asp
>> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/021407-force10-open-source.html
>> (including a comment that says they are fixing it from FreeBSD to
>> NetBSD).
>>
>> but these say FreeBSD:
>>
>> http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=8042&pagtype=sam
>> echan
>>
>> so what's the real story?  Looks like somebody got it wrong (FreeBSD) and 
>> it propigated.
>
> Oh, ouch! Thanks for the catch Warner. I'll double-triple-check but yeah, I 
> can't imagine the NetBSD Foundation issueing a press release if they didn't 
> already know ;-)

That said, the press release thing is not a bad idea.  It would be really nice 
if we could get, say, NetApp to do a joint PR with the Foundation on their 
switch to FreeBSD.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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