On Jo, 16 feb 12, 08:43:20, Joe wrote: > > Hardware compatibility happens in the MS world because the boot is on > the other foot, in that manufacturers have no choice but to engineer > their products to work with Windows, and modify them if problems are > found. No such incentive exists (yet) for Linux compatibility.
It would be enough for hardware manufacturers to stick to the relevant standards, but more than often they implement them in various different ways or simply ignore them and then release Windows drivers that work around the issues. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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