From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 20 08:46:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA27236 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 08:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA27228 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 08:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dbws.etinc.com (dbws.etinc.com [204.141.95.130]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA21501; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 11:51:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970420114403.006e2b4c@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 11:44:06 -0400 To: Stephen Roome From: dennis Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Narvi , Nate Williams , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 04:33 AM 4/20/97 +0100, Stephen Roome wrote: >On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, dennis wrote: >> Ok, so ET has a better product, but the other guys are nicer? >> >> I'll take that every time..... >> >> I will never understand the philosophy of buying inferior products because >> the salesman are nicer. The woman who sold me my Lexus was a real b*tch, >> but I love my car.......I even say hello to her when I bring it in! > >The product may be inferior, Windows supports my soundcard better than >FreeBSD, and if I want to play off-the-shelf games I have to use Windows, >if I want to do some graphic design I'd use windows, because I can't get >Photoshop for FreeBSD. > >To the same end, I'd rather have and SDL card, knowing that it will work >well enough but maybe not as well as the equivalent etinc card (with the >same hitachi chipset and 32k of memory ? > >Even if the etinc card is better I'll buy SDL, because I know they are >helpful and polite. If both do the job, why not chose on who is the nicer >bloke, especially considering either could go wrong and I'd prefer to >talk to helpful support staff. Of course "helpful" implies that they know the answers to your questions... so as long as you dont ask them anything too complicated, I guess you'll be all right. Of course, they didnt write the driver for FreeBSD, so how can they help you to solve real problems when they couldn't even write a driver for their own product? Of course, if our product was less expensive and we took VISA you'd be singing a different toon, but your reasoning sounds good! :-) Dennis