Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:19:42 +0100 (CET) | From | Francis Galiegue <> | Subject | Re: Linux stifles innovation... |
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On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> > Uniform support from most of the hard- and software vendors on this > planet. Support for 50.000+ different hardware expansions with all > their features from grabber cards to color printers and network cards > to 3D graphics accelerators for their whole product line. > > That's not innovation, you're correct. But that's 99% of what users > care about. >
Yeah, which means: users don't care whether the driver is closed- or open-source. Why not making it open source, then?
No matter how hard one will yell it around - vendors don't lose anything in releasing open source drivers and/or specs; on the opposite, they gain broader support.
-- Francis Galiegue, fg@mandrakesoft.com - Normand et fier de l'être "Programming is a race between programmers, who try and make more and more idiot-proof software, and universe, which produces more and more remarkable idiots. Until now, universe leads the race" -- R. Cook
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