On Monday 26 September 2005 9:28 am, Mike Roy wrote:
Hello everyone: Recently there's been a number of posts complaining about the lack of open source / Linux support by different manufacturers, such as Canon and Lexmark. Some of you suggested a boycott of those companies that are reluctant to support Linux. I agree that the boycott can, and is, a powerful tool especially when the numbers grow to such as extent that they can't be ignored by the offending company. However, boycotting a company or product but never alerting the company of the boycott is fruitless - they can hardly change their position if they don't know of the boycott.
True........I've complained before, and often they don't even reply. An "official" type complaint that lets them KNOW that there is a large boycott in place WOULD have much more meaning. Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this time.