Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:29:50 +0100 From: paul@originative.co.uk To: dhagan@cs.vt.edu Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 Message-ID: <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FF07@octopus>
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If people are going to send things like this to Gateway (or anyone else) please don't CC it to the advocacy group. It totally negates any positive advocacy you might achieve. > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Hagan [mailto:dhagan@cs.vt.edu] > Sent: 22 April 1999 13:17 > To: fitzgfri@gateway.com > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 > > > Dear Sir, > > It has come to my attention that Gateway 2000 is considering > offering FreeBSD on its computer systems. My employer, the > Virginia Tech > Computer Science Department, has a Major Account with > Gateway, and we are > already a major user of FreeBSD. In the past we have had to perform > in-house installation of FreeBSD on all of our Gateway PC's (including > some of your server configurations). I would be most > interested in seeing > FreeBSD offered as a out-of-the-box option. I would also be happy to > offer my experience and knowledge of FreeBSD installations on your > hardware, if your engineers would be interested. > > We have been very satisfied with the quality of your > products and > service, as well as FreeBSD's reliability and performance. I would be > overjoyed to see Gateway officially supporting FreeBSD as an > OS option. > > Sincerely, > > Daniel Hagan > Computer Systems Engineer, Virginia Tech CS Dept. > > -- > Daniel Hagan > Computer Systems Engineer > dhagan@cs.vt.edu > > > > 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-advocacy" in the body of the message
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