Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

[Darrin Chandler]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:50:57PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> 
> Except most of the people using FreeBSD in a professional setting are
> pretty high up on the IT/IS/MIS food chain. If a product doesn't work
> on my platform of choice then there's no way in hell I'll approve it's
> uses on other platforms, FreeBSD is my litmus test. If a vendor
> doesn't support FreeBSD they can still pass my test by providing open
> documentation.
> 
> What we really need is score card to keep track of the good and bad
> companies. Someone with initiative could have this up and running in a
> day or less... After it's up we can put a BIG HONKING LINK on the
> FreeBSD main page.

It's not FBSD specific, but there's http://www.vendorwatch.org/, which
is trying to do exactly that. They've got some good info, and I believe
they would welcome any updates or info on companies that they don't
have.

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