Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 08:29:32 -0500 From: Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <4be2da2e0812062344y26eddcc9sf589531d10c71a1c@mail.gmail.com> <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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--Sig_/8INw/4qGWm2XRZlCSxCjvCW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 09:40:46 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: >> manufacturers of hardware. More recently there were times when >> anybody from > >because managers/bosses concentrate on majority, not minority of users. That is plain good business sense. As Willy Sutton once remarked to a reporter, Mitch Ohnstad, who asked why he robbed banks by saying, "because that's where the money is." >> manufacturers did not notice Linux. However now it is possible to >> find a few > >> given out "put normal OS - their list is at us on a site and then we >> will > >i recommend you to find "normal shop" to buy hardware, that allow you >to fully test computer before buying. Obvious, if you are buying a custom built unit. Maybe, even if you buying a generic unit. >if you think there are larger (even hundreds means larger) start >selling "FreeBSD compatible computers" in your area! > >You could make money on that, many people will easily spend 100$ more >for computer that is already tested 100% FreeBSD compatible. > >All you have to do is to test/check lots of different parts of >hardware if it actually work with FreeBSD fine, and make computers >from that parts. The problem with the business design is what do you do if a customer wants a specific hardware device that FreeBSD does not support. The changes of that happening in Linux are much less, and with Windows, virtually never at all. IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization to improve its basic product, especially in the 64-bit systems, which are the future of computing. --=20 Jerry gesbbb@yahoo.com There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over. David Nichols --Sig_/8INw/4qGWm2XRZlCSxCjvCW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkk7z70ACgkQBvaKIJWWCO0TTACePQfEzgp6Za2c3Wfae07hxPLP Uf4AnRI7klb6K0avtx2LOj6LznLtA2p0 =PSZV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/8INw/4qGWm2XRZlCSxCjvCW--
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