From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 27 21:23: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat196.115.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.196.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7FD37B82E for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:23:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA25860; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:22:17 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:22:17 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" Cc: Chuck Robey , 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. right, and that is their perogative ... you can't create a "blacklist" and publicize it, it makes us look bad, not them. What you can do is create a "recommended hardware", or "well supported hardware" list ... Don't show the negative, only show the positive ... promote those vendors that are open to FreeBSD, don't put down those that don't ... > /k > > Chuck Robey(chuckr@picnic.mat.net)@Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 11:44:42PM -0500: > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > > > > > > I love the idea myself, but I have no power over FreeBSD :( > > > > You may not like the shape of the world, but I don't think getting > > publicly nasty about it is going to have any positive effect. It WILL > > have a negative effect, as FreeBSD would gather the reputation of very > > vindictive; it's even very likely that, somewhere along that road, a > > lawsuit over some wording would arise. > > > > You just can't get what you want all the time. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > > Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way. > http://www.webmonster.de http://www.apache.de http://www.splatterworld.de > (NIC-HDL KR433/KR11-RIPE) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message