On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 09:40:46 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> manufacturers of hardware. More recently there were times when >> anybody from > >because managers/bosses concentrate on majority, not minority of users. That is plain good business sense. As Willy Sutton once remarked to a reporter, Mitch Ohnstad, who asked why he robbed banks by saying, "because that's where the money is." >> manufacturers did not notice Linux. However now it is possible to >> find a few > >> given out "put normal OS - their list is at us on a site and then we >> will > >i recommend you to find "normal shop" to buy hardware, that allow you >to fully test computer before buying. Obvious, if you are buying a custom built unit. Maybe, even if you buying a generic unit. >if you think there are larger (even hundreds means larger) start >selling "FreeBSD compatible computers" in your area! > >You could make money on that, many people will easily spend 100$ more >for computer that is already tested 100% FreeBSD compatible. > >All you have to do is to test/check lots of different parts of >hardware if it actually work with FreeBSD fine, and make computers >from that parts. The problem with the business design is what do you do if a customer wants a specific hardware device that FreeBSD does not support. The changes of that happening in Linux are much less, and with Windows, virtually never at all. IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization to improve its basic product, especially in the 64-bit systems, which are the future of computing. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over. David Nichols
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