From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 18:07:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECBA416A4E0 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:07:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwc@stilyagin.com) Received: from puffy.asicommunications.com (puffy.asicommunications.com [216.9.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F1F43D64 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:07:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwc@stilyagin.com) Received: from jeeves.stilyagin.local (reserved-216-9-200-69.asicommunications.com [216.9.200.69] (may be forged)) by puffy.asicommunications.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k6RI6xnl018734 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:07:25 -0700 (MST) Received: (from dwc@localhost) by jeeves.stilyagin.local (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k6RI6sq1031737; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:06:54 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:06:54 -0700 From: Darrin Chandler To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20060727180654.GC2174@jeeves.stilyagin.local> References: <20060726164622.Q17979@ganymede.hub.org> <20060726201933.GH5284@jeeves.stilyagin.local> <20060726185018.BB70.GERARD@seibercom.net> <20060726231555.GB19000@gothmog.pc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:07:41 -0000 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/ |