[6bone] The future

[Jeroen Massar]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 18:12, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> I am inclined to agree with all of you.
> I have AT&T Worldnet's DSL service, which is supplied by Covad. As I
> understand that, it turns out that the commercial side of AT&T's
> activities are also jointly supplied by Covad. They are in the exact
> same position that the clueless ISP is, that the fellow complained
> about in an earlier message. I run here, yes Windows, and Linux. They
> completely support Windows, barely support Macs, and do not support
> Linux. They do not even know what that is. They have a user supplied,
> and sometimes maintained website. It does not cover Linux or FreeBSD,
> or any of the BSD operating systems properly. It does not even cover
> the BSD operating systems.

Ehmm.... you should consider that they are *END USER* support.
And as the typical (99% or so) of the end users, of which they make
their money don't run any of the linux/bsd or other variants and
typically thus run Windows why the heck should they care about the fact
that you are running some kind of OS, with which they won't make
revenue? Nevertheless, setting up something like that should not require
support, only DHCP and otherwise IP,netmask,DNS and you are off, the
support is in google ;)

Gert and Daniel where talking about commercial clients going to
'commercial grade' ISP's which are cheap... and then not getting any
support ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen

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