Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:06:54 -0700 From: Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <20060727180654.GC2174@jeeves.stilyagin.local> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0607271050y5d940271h5e00bcaf3c618db2@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060726164622.Q17979@ganymede.hub.org> <20060726201933.GH5284@jeeves.stilyagin.local> <20060726185018.BB70.GERARD@seibercom.net> <20060726231555.GB19000@gothmog.pc> <a25afc300607270829n6575615cu8c2e63e8803c4f99@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0607271050y5d940271h5e00bcaf3c618db2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:50:57PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > Except most of the people using FreeBSD in a professional setting are > pretty high up on the IT/IS/MIS food chain. If a product doesn't work > on my platform of choice then there's no way in hell I'll approve it's > uses on other platforms, FreeBSD is my litmus test. If a vendor > doesn't support FreeBSD they can still pass my test by providing open > documentation. > > What we really need is score card to keep track of the good and bad > companies. Someone with initiative could have this up and running in a > day or less... After it's up we can put a BIG HONKING LINK on the > FreeBSD main page. It's not FBSD specific, but there's http://www.vendorwatch.org/, which is trying to do exactly that. They've got some good info, and I believe they would welcome any updates or info on companies that they don't have. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
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