Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:15:49 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Darrin Chandler" <dwchandler@stilyagin.com> Cc: Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0607281815o70b11521m148339a850c488ad@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060728223813.GA31151@jeeves.stilyagin.local> References: <20060726164622.Q17979@ganymede.hub.org> <20060726201933.GH5284@jeeves.stilyagin.local> <20060726185018.BB70.GERARD@seibercom.net> <20060726231555.GB19000@gothmog.pc> <a25afc300607270829n6575615cu8c2e63e8803c4f99@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0607271050y5d940271h5e00bcaf3c618db2@mail.gmail.com> <84b68b3d0607271127k175100d9sa3285fadc53e5369@mail.gmail.com> <20060728161300.M27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060728223813.GA31151@jeeves.stilyagin.local>
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On 7/28/06, Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:16:55PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > > > > And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care, > > since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be > > losing .... not buying their products isn't telling them anything they > > didn't already believe ... > > Actually, this is a very valid point. A good approach would be to write > to the vendor and tell them than you had considered their product and it > looks good based on purely technical mertis, but you had to go with a > competitors products due to availability of technical documentation. > > Frankly, the lost sales from FreeBSD will get lost in the noise for a > company like Adaptec. However, a few dozen or a few hundred letters like > above would carry a fair amount of weight. Leave out any attitude or > flames. Just tell them their competitor made money instead of them. > > AMD has played pretty nice with specs, along with price and other things > to be comptetitive. It's worked well for them. Has Intel changed because > of this? You bet. In addition to lowering prices, they've begun to open > specs. Yes! That's a win for everyone, even Intel, and Intel is > beginning to suspect... > > Now, can we get Adaptec or Broadcom to follow suite? Maybe. Some > companies are slow learners. Counting FreeBSD installs and telling them > how many there are won't do nearly as much as 1 out of 1000 FreeBSD > users writing them a letter telling them you bought from their > competitors because of their policies. Bonus points if the competitor > has been nipping at their heels lately. ;) > I agree. but who do you send it to? If you send it to the wrong person (a worker bee for example) it may end up in the trash. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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