From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 27 21:29:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3AB37B859 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:29:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA46750; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:29:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:29:00 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" Cc: Michael Bacarella , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up! In-Reply-To: <20000228061639.A79398@rohrbach.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > hm > > i mean, do the hardware people want their stuff supported or not? that's > the main question > some seem to choose the NOT. Hmmm. You're saying any one who disagrees with you chooses not to have their stuff supported; "if you don't agree with me, you must be stupid", right? Your approach probably will work, some percent of the time. I maintain that it won't show any real gain over trying to portray ourselves as professionals, and it will definitely hurt our credibility. Some vendors don't read anything sent to them, no matter what it is. Of those that are at least subject to *some* kind of influence, they will just kill-file whining and complaining. Well reasoned pleas (that clearly show that we're not Windows-folks, we don't want their code, just an interface) is *far* more likely to be read, and not make us look so vindictive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message