From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 27 23:26:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2E237B80F for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbryant@ppp-207-193-186-1.kscymo.swbell.net) Received: from ppp-207-193-186-1.kscymo.swbell.net ([207.193.186.1]) by mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FQM009AMPZ51D@mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:26:24 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by ppp-207-193-186-1.kscymo.swbell.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) id BAA46720; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:25:47 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:25:42 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Bryant Subject: Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up! In-reply-to: <20000228030949.A73905@rohrbach.de> To: karsten@rohrbach.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: kc5vdj@swbell.net Message-id: <200002280725.BAA46720@ppp-207-193-186-1.kscymo.swbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Windows: R00LZ!@# MS-Winbl0wz DR00LZ!@# X-files: The truth is that the X-Files is fiction X-Republican: The best kind!!! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #8: Sat Oct 30 00:56:56 CDT 1999 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply: > ok guys, here's just a little idea on how to get the hardware > manufacturer guys a little bit more responsive (in fact, i got somehow > "inspired" by the alsa sound project guys because they got something > similar)... > > let's put up a list of hardware manufacturers that do not answer our > mails, that do not hear our pleas for driver development, that simply do > not react. then we might publish a link to this thing on the freebsd.org Why not? One or two people calling a week doesn't attract that much attention within these companies. Maybe a list of manufacturers dealing exclusively with Gates would. I have some to add if this ever comes to pass. If we can make this a joint FreeBSD/Linux list, we can get even more media attention to this issue, this would be a good truce issue with the linux folks. We all know by now how MickeySoft does it's vendor deals, it's been well publicised, and it doesn't take rocket science to guess that they are playing dirty. Making such a list could open things up back to the old days when anyone could obtain register-level programming info on any card they wanted to. jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KC5VDJ - HF to 23cm KC5VDJ@NW0I.#NEKS.KS.USA.NOAM kc5vdj@swbell.net IC-706MkII - IC-T81A - HTX-202 - HTX-212 - HTX-404 - KPC3+ - PK-232MBX/DSP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ET has one helluva sense of humor, always anal-probing right-wing schizos! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message