See, there's a difference to what you're saying and the Taco Cabana thing. What you're proposing is more parallel to refusing to do business with anyone that eats Taco Cabana.mr.72 wrote:well maybe you guys should stop using the internet then.
I guarantee you that in using the internet, you are using equipment built by the company I work for, and they definitely and unequivocally restrict my right to use a gun for self defense while on their property, and this applies to customers, visitors and employees alike.
And I've never been a direct customer (personally) of the big grey networking company. I have, however, been a customer to another company that has been a motivator for many of the recent bills regarding CHL (parking lot, CHL privacy bill, etc). In addition to my technical expertise, I am also a skilled photographer. I was a Canon guy for a very long time, up until I learned about their persistent oppressive behavior towards CHLers. While I still own an old 35mm Canon, they have lost all and any future purchases from me and mine. While your company may prohibit carry on its premises, it has not gone out of its way to hunt down and threaten CHLers the way Canon has. I have, in fact, not purchased equipment from your company for other reasons. Namely, I can't afford it. And the "affordable" blue sub-company it somewhat recently acquired makes junk, so my other principle of not buying junk takes care of that. If your company does indeed have issues with my carrying as a customer, that in itself just adds another reason to my list not to buy from them. And as I do systems work and make purchasing recommendations for networking equipment, I can endeavor to see to it that my company doesn't buy equipment from your company either. See? It can work!
While I can't control whether or not my apartment manager eats Taco Cabana (or my upstream provider uses gray networking equipment), I can control where I go to eat (and who I get my networking equipment and camera equipment from). So I find your parallel flawed. Taco Cabana ain't that great, and unlike the gray networking equipment manufacturer you work for, it does not have a stranglehold on the high-demand routing and networking business, nor does it have a monopoly on the cheap pseudo-mexican food business. I can think of a dozen places around here I'd rather get a taco than Taco Cabana, especially when they've made it clear that they don't want my business.