On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 07:47:27PM +0000, Adrian Fisher wrote: > How much modern computer hardware is fully open source or at least has fully > open interfaces that allow anyone to create device drivers? I Sun and > another company (Anglo-Italian firm Simply-RISC) released a processor based > on Suns offering but has anyone else? Would you be more inclined to buy a > machine based on open source hardware rather than proprietary products such > as Asus, Intel and AMD? > > http://www.sun.com/processors/opensparc/ > http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=166
Yes I would be more inclined to buy open source hardware and I'd even pay more for it because all its warts would be known and fixed over time just like open source OSs are. Doug.
