----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Rhodes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [newbie] The Linux Printer Driver Petition Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 15:22:05 -0400
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 11:16 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote:
http://www.petitiononline.com/YALB1975/petition.html Just to let you all know if you have not seen this. It may or may not help.
Until I read the first line of the petition I was looking forward to subscribing to the petition. The first sentence of the petition is an insult. The over all mood of this particular petition is, I believe, arrogant, belligerant, combative, threatening - and not persuasive at all. I've always heard you get more with sugar than you do with bile.
-- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free **********************************************************************
I detected a similar attitude Kenneth. Not only in the petition itself, but in a lot of the signatories comments. I think this sort of an attitude will, in all probability, not have much of a positive influence, except to allow some frustrated folks to vent a bit. I do understand the frustration however.
I was intent to sign, but after reading the petition and comments, I declined the opportunity. MS has a very strong hold on the hardware industry at this point, and manufacturers can just ignore us and still profit nicely. The tide is turning a bit, but we are the decided minority as of yet. I am hopeful that will not always be the case, and I do respect anyone's efforts to help the cause.
Best regards.
--Angus
I have to agree - in the words of Murray Roman "you can beat people up and have them say 'I love you'".
My personal tactic is to email manufacturers and request information about their products and its compatability with linux, different manufacturer every week, whether I want their products or not.
Perhaps if a concerted effort, possibly a few dozen contacting (e.g.) Canon *might* eventually erode manufacturers resistance, eventually.
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