Re: "We do not support LINUX"

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
1 Dec 1999 18:14:19 +0100

dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de (Dominik Kubla) writes:

>On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:12:46PM -0500, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>>
>> Just thought this was kind of weird:
>>
>> http://www.kingmax.com/support/support1.html
>>
>> It's almost like they're proud of it.

>Most likely their "support people" never got any training beyond clicking
>on "setup.exe" and they know no other way to answer customer questions

[...]

And they can't read, too.

Further down the page:

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KEN0100-AF Driver:
16-bit 10/100M Fast Ethernet card driver
For products (P/N) :
KEN0100-AF
Driver version : V1.21 for Win9x/NT/2000, Linux
^^^^^
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>Well just let'em know that they just put themselves on the "don't buy" list
>for whatever organisation you are representing... If enough people do this,
>they will eventually realise that they are loosing potential business.

... losing potential business. :-)

Kind regards
Henning

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Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen --             hps@tanstaafl.de
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