2006/4/5, Ian Pilcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnaud Quette wrote: > > > > Anyway, I would advice people to lobby for alternative (ie MGE, NUT, > > Linux and *bsd) at their local reseller. The more people asking for, > > the more chance there are to find MGE products in the future, and > > maybe resellers talking about NUT ;-) > > > > I can't help wondering if you've ever actually tried such "lobbying". > I've done it occasionally for more than 10 years, going back to my OS/2- > using days. After spending hundreds(?) of hours arguing with slack- > jawed sales clerks who think that Windows is the Internet I have yet to > record a single success.
I do understand as I've long been lobbying (and continuing to lobby) too. Before "convincing" MGE, I did the same in some others enterprise, with mitigated success. But I never miss an oppurtinity to support a friendly mfr or editor. That's like marketing, and that's the Redmond's technique: the more you talk about one thing, the more chance the listener will record it. I'm convinced that the linux (and *bsd) success is due to the people behind and the user lobbying. But when I say lobbying, just giving a word about your preference for ... ie MGE is sufficient enough. Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D Dpt Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
