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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
