Best Buy Acquires SpeakEasy · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @02:53AM from the who-owns-your-isp-today dept.

spazimodo writes "From the announcement e-mail from Speakeasy CEO Bruce Chatterley: 'I am pleased to announce that Speakeasy has been acquired by Best Buy, an innovative and growing Fortune 100 company and the top consumer electronics retailer in North America. This is a significant milestone for our company as our new relationship will help us realize our goals of becoming the No. 1 provider of voice and data solutions to small businesses. It is important to note that though Speakeasy will now be a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy, we will continue to operate as a standalone, independent operating division with headquarters in Seattle.' As a longtime Speakeasy customer, it's too bad to see their business moving in this direction. Back in the day when I called up their support with a problem, and mentioned I was using an OpenBSD box as a firewall/gateway the response was: 'cool!' — slightly different from the response Comcast or Verizon would give. I can't imagine they'll be able to maintain that independence, and there's no way I'm paying a premium for Internet service to Best Buy."

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OpenBSD as a firewall? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-27 03:00 · Score: -1, Troll

I'd sooner run a Windows firewall, or even the Mossad-backdoored Checkpoint Firewall-1, before I'd run a piece of crap like OpenBSD as my firewall.

Seriously, one time I called Theo DeRaadt (who is by all accounts a super-nice guy) at home for support, and he told me to FUCK OFF! Can you believe it?