On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Jeff Mohler wrote:
Donations thru guilt? Great tactic.
Yes, you are right... Anyway I just posted that to as a heads up. Even after all the passionate flames I've received, I don't imply that I agree with all that is being said...
I view Negative situations are great places where one can turn it in ones favour and NetApp could use this post at their advantage.
I think that it would just be good marketing/pr for NetApp if instead of them getting another Dell Perc/4, they could donate some box that has been traded in... and throw in a licenses and some drives... All the guys with CVS access would start to familiarize themselves with Netapp and down the road that could turn into more sales...
Wasnt aware the license for BSD required tithing.
I AM aware that the proper maintenance of a SCSI bus involves sacraficing goats however.
What will Netapp now owe Crane for over a decade of trouble free flushing?
What homage does Netapp pay BSD?
It could be running Linux.
Yes, it could also be running windows 3.1 or symbian.... ;-) one wishes...
Maren.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Maren S. Leizaola Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:44 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Requests on Slashdot for donations for OpenBSD.
I post this here in case you guys at NetApp have not seen it.
http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/03/13/1847246.shtml?tid=137&tid=162&t... 72&tid=98&tid=8&tid=7
Network Appliance should donate a filer (Score:1) by Okijames (309689) on Tuesday March 15, @11:00AM (#11943572)
Network Appliance a.k.a NetApp is noticeably absent from the OpenBSD donations page (www.openbsd.org/donations.html). Anyone who uses a NetApp knows immediately that the OnTap OS is BSD, always has been BSD.
Considering the Billions (yes, Billions) of dollars in revenue NetApp has derived from the BSDs, I am appalled at the company's lack of contribution back to the BSD community!
Considering that a good number of their founders, engineers, and developers were educated at Berkeley (yes the B in BSD), I am doubly appalled at the company's lack of contribution!
Now OpenBSD is looking for some storage and NetApp sits by while a POS Dell array is considered? You know, Dell, as in EMC's (NetApp's biggest competitor) biggest partner!
HELLO? NetApp? HELLO? You should make sure that all the BSDs host their CVS repositories on NetApp, a nice BSD based platform.
FWIW... Yes, I contribute. I have standing subscriptions and kick in a few extra bucks when needed.
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