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

[Chris Whitehouse]

Joao Barros wrote:
> And on the subject, has anyone noticed this email from someone
> @Promise to the scsi mailing list?
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2006-July/002543.html
> 

I wanted to reply about this post but I'm hesitating because I know 
there are more people who talk than act and I can only talk because I 
wouldn't know how to act here. Still...

Assuming it's genuine Promise are offering to supply a driver for 
FreeBSD. The responder points them to the send-pr doc (unfortunately 
with a broken link but that is not my point.) The reply is a typical 
laconic freebsd reply which would be sufficient for another freebsd 
user. However this is an offer which could possibly be considered gold 
dust since it is a hardware manufacturer offering to work with FreeBSD. 
I wanted to ask if there is some sort of channel whereby he could be 
given active support so that he doesn't just go away because he thinks 
nobody is particularly interested.

Of course maybe someone has already responded off list in which case 
very sorry for the noise.

Chris