On 11/11/06, YAGNESH N DESAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Friends; PIL came to my mind 'cos of provided limited choice by Indian Service providers and manufacturers. Can one file PIL saying all the Generic Hardware vendors & generic IT service providers need to ship drivers for at least one other os (preferably Linux) so that the consumer is not forced to "buy" Windows.
Hello Yagnesh, That is a good thought. I had never thought of the support from this point of view. I think we can surely file PIL for favouring a certain company or something. Many high-end special hardware can be exceptional. Yesterday, I happened to interact with a senior person from IBM, he mentioned that it was company policy to release a Linux driver for any hardware that IBM manufactures / sells. Regards Aditya If such PIL is filed it can create lot of awareness among the masses by
media coverage. If the litigation is won then further awareness can be created since the purchaser of the hardware (Say printer) knows that his hardware will run on other os (Linux) hence while paying for upgrading the Windows he can think of switching. Though I know as a Linux user most of the hardware are supported by Linux with few exceptions. Replies awaited Yagnesh -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
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