seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:

> In message <el2ln75jglq.fsf@eniwetok.ihack.net>, Charles M. Hannum writes:
> >How, pray tell, does saying `Company Foo is shipping NetBSD on Product
> >Bar' make us `assholes'??  That's utterly ludicrous.
> 
> If they want to keep it under the table, for whatever (probably stupid)
> reason, it's *polite* to let them do it.  ;-)
> 
> >It strikes me that people are treating such an a statement as somehow
> >unwantedly `tainting' the company.
> 
> Maybe their current belief is that it would hurt them somehow.  The point
> is, it's nice for us to respect their judgement on it.  Otherwise, maybe
> people will be a bit less happy to use NetBSD - and the goal is to get them
> using it, no?

So it's `polite' for us to guess, based on total lack of information,
that they don't want this publicized?  Even though anyone with half a
brain could figure it out in 5 minutes and post an article on
slashdot?  I don't buy it.  What I buy is that they don't *care*
whether NetBSD is mentioned, so they just don't bother.  It's `our'
job to make them care.