Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:57:33 +0530 From: "Amitabh Kant" <amitabhkant@gmail.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: <84b68b3d0607271127k175100d9sa3285fadc53e5369@mail.gmail.com> 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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And this is what I always do. As a person responsible for recommending/approving/buying harware related stuff for few different companies, I make it a point that I *prefer* only those brands that have support for FreeBSD. For me, this is more so in case of RAID cards. On 7/27/06, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> 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. > I see the whole issue this way: companies are free to choose whether to support FreeBSD or not, and I am free to choose/recommend their product in my installations. It's only when we start to speak with our money bags, that it will make commercial sense to them to support *BSD. Amitabh
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