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

[User Freebsd]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Darrin Chandler 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. ;)

Something like this is what the FreeBSD Foundation should co-ordinate ... 
not a 'letter writing campaign', but coming up with a well worded, 
professional form letter that we could use ... I, for one, am a terrible 
writer :(

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