On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Mike A. Harris wrote:
Well, I agree, however I put more stock into companies that say
"Yes, we support Linux" or "Here is the source code for a driver
for our product, you can do whatever you need to do to get it to
work in Linux", or "here is a manual, and we will not sue you",
or "NDA? No, you don't have to sign an NDA, what do you think we
are? APCC?" ;o)
Indeed..
In contrast to APC and Andre's struggle with them, if you go to
Best's website you can download their UPS software. The Unix version
is available as source.
So let's see:
APC: made it difficult for Andre to write his programme and release
the source. (and it's not like Andre got loads of spec's and help
from them AFAIK).
Best: wrote their own upsd, and have the source openly available on
their website.
which one do you trust/respect the most?
regards,
--
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