On 05 Jul 2003 17:47:10 +0300 Gilboa Davara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Plus, as Intel has contributed greatly to the 2.5 release cycle (check > the change-logs) in the past, you can trust them to release 2.6 drivers > if the current drivers won't be compatible. Sure, just like the Centrino support... I'm not bashing Intel which *currently* (and wisely IMHO) support Linux. I'm just trying to demonstrate that corporate interests may vary in unexpected ways -- open source protects us from being subject to vendors mercy. And Muly gave in another post the correct answer. Vendors should be made aware to the consequence of their decisions, be it losing customers to ¨friendlier" competitors, or having to invest more resources in constant "porting" of their binary drivers to multitude of kernel versions and subversions. Having a vendor support people need to answer all the time: "why did your driver hang my Linux system? The kernel authors claim they cannot help me because your driver is closed-source -- can you explain that to me?" Looks like pretty effective learning aid to me :-) Cheers, let's buy "Open Hardware" :-) -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron "Linux is free. Clue is not." - Eric S. Raymond ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
