Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2003 02:24:29 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: Honest does not pay here ... |
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On Tue, 07 Jan 2003, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Matthias Andree wrote: > >You're at the author's mercy if you need to upgrade your kernel or if > >the driver doesn't work for you. I'd rather know before buying a product > >(modem, GFX board, ...) if there's either non-NDA'd documentation or > >better an OpenSource driver or at least support for such. > > Fine for us developers, but 99.5% of users wouldn't recognise a c > function if it jumped up and bit them on the ass. If it doesn't say > "linux supported" on the box, they won't buy it. Google? Source Forge? > ./configure? WTFIT?. Where is their freedom?
> Until the manufacturers start providing good quality supported drivers > for their hardware, binary or source, linux will stay exactly where it > is now; a server room tool and a hobbyists playground.
> I for one think thats a real shame
Only that you can't trust in the el-cheapo vendors claiming Linux support, and an independent certification is needed (not only for Linux, for the *BSDs as well). Without a trusted certification, some crooks may try to claim Linux support and it won't quite work out. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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