Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:42:33 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Darrin Chandler" <dwchandler@stilyagin.com>, "User Freebsd" <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant@gmail.com>, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <003701c6b2c9$689ae4b0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> 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><84b68b3d0607271127k175100d9sa3285fadc53e5369@mail.gmail.com><20060728161300.M27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060728223813.GA31151@jeeves.stilyagin.local>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrin Chandler" <dwchandler@stilyagin.com> To: "User Freebsd" <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: "Amitabh Kant" <amitabhkant@gmail.com>; "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:38 PM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:16:55PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > > > > And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care, > > since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be > > losing .... not buying their products isn't telling them anything they > > didn't already believe ... > > Actually, this is a very valid point. A good approach would be to write > to the vendor and tell them than you had considered their product and it > looks good based on purely technical mertis, but you had to go with a > competitors products due to availability of technical documentation. > > Frankly, the lost sales from FreeBSD will get lost in the noise for a > company like Adaptec. Depends on who sent the letters. Ted
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