Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: Announce: ndiswrapper | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:19:00 -0500 |
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On Thursday 20 November 2003 01:52, Matt Mackall wrote: [huge snip of well reasoned arguments]
>Personally, I think it's time to do some sort of trademark > enforcement or something so that companies can't get away with > slapping penguins on devices that only work with 2.2.14 Red Hat > kernels.
Hear, hear! I'm still smarting over buying a copy of Wordperfect 8 for linux for $65 back in '98 or '99, only to find it wouldn't even install if it didn't find some old, buggy 2.2.x kernel to run under. The 2.4.x family was by then several generations old.
Shennanigans like that, screwing the customer (who had no recourse but to seriously downgrade his system, no refunds were given) was one of the things that Corel was very good at. And it no doubt heavily contributed to the eventual failure of Corel. Potential Future Customers remember that even if the PHB's can't. I removed my self from that PFC list forthwith.
I keep it on the shelf as a reminder that I was one of those "Suckers born every minute" :(
I'm for it, if it doesn't work with the latest stable kernel release, the labels MUST COME OFF. But howto enforce that legally is the real $64 question. Humm, I guess that dates me, I can remember that radio program. From back in the '40's.
-- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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