From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 18:27:38 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 E840116A4DE for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:27:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amitabhkant@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75BC843D66 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:27:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from amitabhkant@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so427416uge for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:27:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZEPrLUjwhSD61dAXPCPXCD/rOjt/yGYLzk3ElxKE53eAT8xvz3DHIOJnz9aDd3mbs4nlrNLrK/x44ER7znLAQ4FC6vbBKomyuW+jSV+I8xoghKY9XQJYjCGnkUqlrTed7skAaZTKg5VlfHg5oZDbLYMeHGb+bMS1kEgDxk/h9+k= Received: by 10.67.101.10 with SMTP id d10mr7554672ugm; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:27:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.31.7 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <84b68b3d0607271127k175100d9sa3285fadc53e5369@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:57:33 +0530 From: "Amitabh Kant" To: "Nikolas Britton" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060726164622.Q17979@ganymede.hub.org> <20060726201933.GH5284@jeeves.stilyagin.local> <20060726185018.BB70.GERARD@seibercom.net> <20060726231555.GB19000@gothmog.pc> 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 18:27:39 -0000 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 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