On Wednesday 08 November 2000 18:33, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
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| Maybe you are new to Linux, but this is not at all atypical.
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It is not atypical for other segments/markets as well.
There are companies who don't care about customers.
Take, for example, auto industry. Just imagine: writing letter to GM/Ford/VW
saying your car doesn't going right... or you can't get through on it on your
favourite road... (in countryside, for example...)
PC companies like Compaq are peanuts comparing to those guys.
| 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.
That's why I wrote my e-mails to Compaq and ATI.
They should know that there is a problem. If they do not solve it - they take
a risk to loose customer.
As about dektop/server, I have now clear preference: NVidia.
Unfortunately, NVidia doesn't make chips for notebooks..
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| 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.
Let's wait what ATI will answer (now I have only auto-response)
if they gave no answer, say, in 10 days, it makes sense to publish facts on
Slashdot and some more general place, like C-Net (I ike C-Net a lot)
Yehh, S3 is already out. Number Nine as well. Hercules. Rendition.
Just a few manufacturers left, isn't it?
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