Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:27:23 -0500 |
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On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 11:11 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, David Schwartz wrote:
> > That makes it clear that it's not about giving us the fruits of years of > > your own work but that it's about enabling us to do our own work. (I would > > have no objection to also requiring them to provide a minimal open-source > > driver. I'm not trying to work out the exact terms here, just get the idea > > out.) > > Since `works with' may sound a bit too vague, something like > `LinuxFriendly(tm)', with a happy penguin logo? >
I've bought a couple of products lately that had the happy penguin logo on it. Just to find out that they only applied a bare minimum functionality of the device for Linux. If you want more, you need to plug it into a Windows box.
Funny, if you own a Mac, it had the same problem. It had a little more functionality than the Linux port, but still far from what they give for Windows.
I like the Open Hardware thing that Paolo mentioned.
-- Steve
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