Donations thru guilt? Great tactic.
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.
-----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&tid=1
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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