Subject: Re: Why people know what FreeBSD and OpenBSD are, but not NetBSD.
To: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/08/1999 11:04:59
Charles M. Hannum writes:
>
> I'll tell you what the real screws are.
>
> 1) Companies like NCI and IBM, which are actively using NetBSD and
> quite possibly shipping millions of units running NetBSD, do not in
> any way advertise this. I looked on the various IBM web sites, and
> could find NO REFERENCE WHATSOEVER to NetBSD. I'm not sure which
> is the more disturbing notion: that they're afraid to say they're
> not using Linux, or that they're ashamed to say they're using
> NetBSD.
Just out of curiosity, what is IBM using NetBSD on? (or are they just
rebadging a NCI box?) (we're a huge IBM shop here, so I'd love to
know.. )
-Andrew
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