On Saturday 11 November 2006 12:18, Aditya Laghate wrote: > 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.
I would like to say 2 things. 1. Court matters drag. The intention here is to raise public awareness and not to obtain a verdict, IIUC. If you are not interested in verdict, the court will slam you with a contempt and there goes everything you were hoping out of this activity. 2. As they say, be careful of what you ask for. Asking for drivers to be released does not help. Manufacturers will release the drivers that are of low quality and will turn linux into another windows clone. Infested with unknown things. Binary blobs classify as drivers but they don't bring any value to freedom. Better thing to ask for is specifications. Community maintained drivers often turn out to be more stable and they are automatically maintained by the community. The company does not have to invest into maintaining the driver. I think making a petition on net, asking for freedom in services, which includes hardware and public ISP services, creating a hall of shame for things/services/companies that does not provide the freedom of speech could fetch similar publicity and awareness. It would cost less too. At worst it could be databases of what works and what not with linux/bsd etc. At best companies can look forward not to be blacklisted there.. And one more thing. Stop using ndiswrapper. Say no to drivers from windows. Idea is good but we differ on implementation.. :) Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ 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.
