On 27/09/05, Fred A. Miller
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
Agreed! Perhaps something from Novell SuSE, Red Hat, Mandriva or one of the many support companies out there. In fact, the support co's may have a bigger impact than the software manufacturers. After all, support companies also do major installations. If one of these were to approach the likes of Canon and tell them that they had a contract to install Linux (of what ever distro) on X thousand workstations for a given business and they would like to use Canon hardware but.... etc. Surely that must have some sort of impact? -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR