On Mon, September 5, 2005 12:36 am, Willy Tarreau said: > Well, to be fair, most laptop users today are in companies which provide > them with the model the staff has chosen for all the employees. And > employees > try to install Linux on them anyway. That's how you end up with things > like > ndiswrapper, because the people who make those notebooks for companies > don't > care at all about their customers ; what they want is negociate with the > staff to sell them 2000 laptops, and that's all.
Companies that provide laptops to their employees tend to frown on the users installing a bunch of stuff anyway. If the company was buying the laptop to run Linux it would be spec'd appropriately. But the real crux of the argument here is not whether or not people should ever use binary-only drivers, it's whether the open source kernel developers should spend any time worrying about it or not. Cheers, Sean - 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/
