Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:48:24 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> 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: <4940E1E8.6050102@unsane.co.uk> 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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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. > http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests and links from there. Vince > 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; > 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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