Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Dirk Steuwer <> | | Subject | Re: free Driver proposal (tm) | | Date | Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:50:21 +0000 (UTC) |
Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0 <at> student.ltu.se> writes:
> > Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:07:37AM +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote: > > > > > >>Why not something more of "Runs on Open Drivers", which also gives us a > >>chance to "teach" people why to use an open OS without the replies: > >>"Windows is pretty" (actually, it was a guy who told me that) > >> > >>
Yes, i was thinking purely about openDrivers. Lets do it this way:
- get all open operating system folks to join - have an approval organisation, that everyone is happy with - lets call it "free driver" support - create apropriate Logos for each operating system i.e. "Penguin-Logo" with "free driver since kernel-a.b.c.d" or "BSD-Daemon-Logo" with "free driver since a.b" - the hardware version numer (usb-device id, pci-id)? will be held in a database. If in doubt people can look it up there. In case future kernels will drop support, it can be marked there as well. A yearly logo is too much confusion, since hardware support for open drivers stays pretty long in the kernel. (Imagine you license in december - you only got a month...) Maybe educate people that support for kernel 2.6.x.y series means a penguin logo on blue ground. If dramatic changes to the kernel are introduced, which all drivers affect call the kernel 2.8.x.y an educate people about a new linux in town and create a penguin logo on yellow ground - hardware vendors pay someone, or provide source code themselves to be reviewed by apropriate kernel folks/bsd board...
- small licence fee and endless advertising possiblilities pay for organisation folks and hosting. Keeping up database records could help kernel developers. There could be a log file attached to each device stating the current affairs about support in varying OSs
Dirk
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