> He was, obviously, upset with the tactics used and ask that we stop as no
> one will receive a response due to TI's legal department looking into the
> whole situation.

I sympathize, however, experience has shown us that when the lawyers
in a company hold up the ability to actually support something in a
free operating system that many of us depend upon for our
infrastructure, the only thing that has *ever* worked in the past has
been a mailing campaign from customers, (i.e. us), who affect purchasing
decisions. Otherwise the company simply has no notion that even
though things like openbsd are a smaller percentage of what our
organizations buy laptops to run, because we affect those purchasing
decisions and also need those laptops to run stuff that's supportable
in the free world, We *will* be recommending against buying stuff with
chipsets that we don't see it possible to have free drivers for. Why
buy a product that will only work with windows, even if that is what
you are actually going to put on it, when the hardware will prevent you
from redeploying it somewhere else later running something else.

With many companies, until annoyed customers start making noise in
people's mailboxes, nothing gets done - the legal department views
even reasonable arguments as "just some crank from a fringe of the
market". the fact is *nothing else seems to work in these cases*.

-Bob