Hi, Ralph Little writes:
> Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:31 AM ken <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 5/20/20 11:04 AM, Ralph Little wrote: >> >> > A rich software infrastructure is one of the things that sells devices. >> > Who wouldn't want to sell more devices? >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Ralph >> >> Indeed. For a year or more I've wanted to buy a new AIO >> printer/scanner, but of course want one which fully supports Linux. I >> told salespeople this and they go silent. Either the machine of my >> interest doesn't support Linux or they don't know. It's very >> discouraging for me and the manufacturers are losing my sale... and >> probably sales from others like me. >> >> I think it is a trend resulting from manufacturers becoming overly large > and losing their social conscience. > Pretty much all manufacturers are doing it now, particularly since they are > competing less on hardware and more on infrastructure and services and > jealously guarding their walled fences. Increasingly, the people running > these organisations are distanced from end-users: they are just numbers on > a balance sheet. > > You don't have to be kind when you don't believe that you are dealing with > people. Also, they very likely consider the Linux market a niche. That's if they've heard of Linux in the first place :-/ > Anyway, I don't want to get too political here especially because I can > feel myself getting annoyed :D Same here. -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join
