Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

[Vincent Hoffman]

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.
>
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