From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 28 10: 8:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail10.svr.pol.co.uk (mail10.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A0C615750 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@eborcom.com) Received: from modem-102.terbium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.32.102] ident=[VGRaa3sDcYFx7BQbnmfECE2VHhradhep]) by mail10.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10cWBE-0005Ey-00 for doc@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:23:21 +0100 Received: (qmail 1627 invoked by uid 5000); 28 Apr 1999 11:15:51 -0000 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:15:51 +0100 From: Tom Hukins To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: wilsonb@clarkson.edu, "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: [wilsonb@clarkson.edu: Encouragement of FreeBSD users to pressure VMWare to port their software to FreeBSD] Message-ID: <19990428121551.B595@eborcom.com> Mail-Followup-To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, wilsonb@clarkson.edu, "Matthew D. Fuller" References: <19990427174001.A25285@cs.tu-berlin.de> <19990427170842.Q1229@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990427170842.Q1229@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 05:08:42PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 05:08:42PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > ----- Forwarded message from Brian Wilson ----- > > > > If it would be possible to somewhere on the freebsd.org website > > encourage FreeBSD users to email VMWare and pressure them to port their > > software to FreeBSD, or do you think there is a better place to > > encourage users to do this. Sorry if this mail should have gone to > > someone other than yourself, but I didn't know where else to send it. > > I think a generalize form of this might not be a bad idea. A page of > 'Commercial software we want', with places to 'add your signature' to a > petition or some such, so we can have hard numbers to throw at the > various vendors. Or at least listing email/phone/snailmail/etc contacts > to request a FreeBSD version. Whilst I think it would be very useful to gauge the demand for various commercial packages on FreeBSD, I think it is very important to be careful how we go about this. The company in question should be asked before we go ahead and put a message like this on the Web site. Many companies would not appreciate large numbers of people contacting them about the same issue. I would much rather have one person explain an issue to me than have fifty people mention an issue to me. Besides, I expect people who really care about a FreeBSD port of VMWare will have already contacted the company. They won't need asking. Regards, Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message