Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:56:12 -0400 From: Brian McKeon <backyard1454-nospam@yahoo.com> To: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>, backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project Message-ID: <44D2D36C.7000108@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060803211935.S25268@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060804001011.17781.qmail@web81604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060803211935.S25268@ganymede.hub.org>
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User Freebsd wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com wrote: > >> Personally I don't think this stuff should be tracked in any >> centralized fashion. I don't particullarly like when our freedom to >> choose to do something is tracked or monitored; because it is no >> longer a freedom. Maybe that is just paranoia speaking. > > > none of your freedoms will be in any way infringed upon with what is > proposed ... you will always have the freedom to disable the reporting > and not particpate *shrug* > >> I think a much more productive goal is to get all the users that have >> unsupported hardware to write into the vendor that created it and ask >> them why they don't support a spawn of the OS that allowed what we >> call the internet to exist. Put this message on FreeBSD.org, get >> people in this list to do it, get on a soap box and scream it. I >> think giving them numbers of systems will just be ignored. But >> getting 1000 emails a day in multiple languages from around the world >> will get them thinking maybe its worth at least releasing the specs >> just to shut these people up. > > > The above is an "active campaign", which you will generally find > doesn't yield anything, unfortunately, since its more work then 99.9% > of the people will feel compelled to do ... > > As ScottL said in one of his emails, in a form ... We don't want to > piss Adaptec off, which a "letter writing campaign" would ... what we > want to do is give Adaptec something to think about in terms of > 'market missed' ... > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services > (http://www.hub.org) > Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . > scrappy@hub.org > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 > sometimes I think with my head not up in the air. I see you point. I guess I'll try to give them more of a market to be concered about. If I can convince the girls next door its simple and friendly to USE, then I think anybody can be convinced, Good luck with the project, maybe I'll find myself on the list someday wish me luck with this desktopbsd thiing; I'm in short supply of it lately and it will be coming in handy... -brian
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