| Personally I don't think vendors make much in the way of profits from the type of things that this site addresses - if anything they might make more as customers are exposed to new products and features that they wouldn't have known existed otherwise; case in point - look at the IP1100 thread in the Nortel section where a poster commented on how much they liked the look of the phone and mentioned that they had already requested a quote from their vendor - that sounds like potential profit to me and might not have happend had that person not seen that product on this site.
Most of the time the techs and engineers on here won't recommend configuration changes (in public) that could cause system degradation to the point of having to get a vendor involved (and when the vendor does get involved in fixing changes a customer made it's usually t&m) of course any tech who has been around for more than a week knows that you always document and back up before making changes.
Those of us who have been around here for awhile know who is who and how far to discuss things in the public forums as opposed to using the PM system. |