Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:32:49 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <20081211143249.GC40295@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1228733209.4495.12.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4be2da2e0812062344y26eddcc9sf589531d10c71a1c@mail.gmail.com> <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> <1228733209.4495.12.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:46:49PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:29 -0500, Jerry wrote: > > <snip> > > IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, > > it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed > > a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization > > to improve its basic product, especially in the 64-bit systems, which > > are the future of computing. > > Ok. So what needs improvement and where to start? Not being critical, > I'm interested in this. > > Personally though, I think the business model here is a failure and > seriously flawed. And yes, I did study business at Monash (and butted > heads constantly; IF you don't look out for the health and well being of > a community, environment, employees, whatever- the extreme social > responsibility- then the clients and potential clients die, ergo no > customers therefore no money to be made. Thats looking after your > bottomline: Duh!) and saw this continually. Marketing the same; The thing people seem to forget is that FreeBSD doesn't have a business model - or that is its business model. It is simply sharing technology without much concern about propagation or return. It accepts contributions of various kinds, mostly in kind. ////jerry > appealing to all markets is extremely lucrative, and with the technology > literally at our fingertips can be very easy to do. So why not just pull > the finger out and do it instead of saying its too hard, too much > trouble, etc. Old people at the wheel stuck on old ways and refusing to > budge (no offense intended to those on the list- I have a lot of respect > for those in technology; strangely the inverse is true- they actually > know what they're doing and do it properly the first time) in > management. > > Sorry for the rant, but that's just my 2c. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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