Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

[Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>]

Aaron Glenn wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:08:06 -0700, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote:
>
> > Why is it so important to drag your users into your political fights
> > by depriving them of stuff that works now but isn't exactly everything
> > that you want? 
>
> We go along willingly, thank you. 
>
> When I deploy something in production I do my very best not to
> compromise and settle. Yeah, compromise is a part of life...blah blah.
> Why should I compromise when there are alternatives? Why should I
> continue to buy and use Adaptec products when there are alternatives?
> Why does Adaptec think it can get away with simply ignoring customers?
> Are we asking for the moon here? Other companies don't have to hide
> behind NDA's on simple things like RAID management software - why does
> Adaptec?
>
>
> aaron.glenn
Why do you think Adaptec should care about an OS that only has a small
fraction of a market share compared to Windows and Linux, and a leader
who likes to antagonize everyone?  Not that FreeBSD is much bigger, but
I'm thrilled that they let me work on the driver and port the apps.  I
would have been happy to share if asked.

Scott