Dear Mr. Majid Awad, I am working here in Germany for a satellite based remote sensing corporation. Well, we won't go buy thousands of desktops or notebooks, as we do not need that many of them, but we are just in the phase of buying our image processing cluster hardware. I just wanted to let you know that we already, before I read all the discussions here at the list, decided to spend our money on AMD64 based machines instead of Intel based ones. These discussions here about your licensing policies are fortifying me that we made the right decision to not spend money on hardware where the hardware and its drivers are burdened with unfree licenses.
I just wanted to let you know that. kind regards Sebastian "Justin Blackmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I 2ND THAT! > > -----Original Message----- > Gilles Chehade > Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 4:17 PM > > Mr. Majid Awad, > > I have recently been provided with a DELL laptop at work which runs > Windows and OpenBSD. > I have recently bought a VAIO laptop for personal use which runs > OpenBSD. > > These two laptops have a point in common. ALL of the hardware is > recognized and works ... > except for the Intel wifi chipsets. About four days ago, at an airport, > I had written code that I needed > to synchronize with the current code base at work. This forced me to > keep booting between Windows > and my working operating system so that I could actually work and make > the changes visible for the > people at my company by ... using the network. You can't imagine how > irritable one can get when > spending time waiting for a couple systems to boot about twenty times > within a few hours. This has > wasted both me and my company a lot of time and money. And worst of all, > > this is how we are > treated for trusting your company and SPENDING MONEY on its hardware. > > I just got back from my business trip and first thing I'll do tomorrow > is discuss with the decision > takers at work so that they contact dell and tell them the Intel based > hardware is not working > and we need it replaced (oh don't worry that's just about a hundred > laptops, it won't affect your > sales that much). And for my personal use, this is the last time I buy a > > laptop or desktop with > Intel hardware in it, I have wasted enough time with your integrated > graphic chipsets and your > integrated wifi chipsets, I can't even recall how many times I got angry > > at some of your hardware > not being working properly (or at all) because you refuse to cooperate > with ... your customers. > I'd rather spend my money on something that works and keep a smile on my > > face while working. > > I am angry and you lost a customer.
