from the quill of Vadim Plessky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
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> Advise is needed...
> I got answer from Compaq - in general it can be translated like _fu$k
> off_
Maybe you are new to Linux, but this is not at all atypical.
I have been thinking about vendors with this kind of attitude. I think
that we (as Linux users and developers) should start a registry of
companies that will not support Linux. My first candidate would be
Iomega. They are b*stards. They more or less hang the phone up on you
when you tell them you are using Linux. Next would be my DSL vendor,
PacBell. They do pretty much the same thing.
Anyway, we should remember who these folks are so that when the tide
turns and Linux dominates the world, we (the Linux community) provide no
help or support at all, in getting Linux running on or with their
hardware. But even moreso, as users, we DO NOT buy their products, now
or when they finally do change their minds and support Linux. Let them
sell them to the diminishing Windows market and go out of business when
it finally dries up.
We should be quite public about the fact that if a hardware vendor
refuses to support Linux now, it will be shunned and boycotted when the
time comes that they do want to support Linux. Let them gamble on not
supporting Linux now when we need them. Turnabout is fair play I say.
I will NEVER buy another Iomega product EVER, and I am just biding my
time until I can shuck my DSL vendor.
One can dream every now and then, no? :-)
b.
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Brian J. Murrell
