Re: Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.]

2001-02-18 Thread John Cavan
"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael H. Warfield) writes: > > > Excuse me? A 1 billion dolar investment in Linux is not > >supporting it? > > On their own hardware. Which is really the point and they won't be the only ones. If IBM wants to attract and keep custome

Re: Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.]

2001-02-18 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael H. Warfield) writes: > Excuse me? A 1 billion dolar investment in Linux is not >supporting it? On their own hardware. > Setting up tier 1 and tier 2 support services for a half a dozen >distributions is not supporting it? For their own hardware. > Porting their A

Re: Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.]

2001-02-17 Thread Gerhard Mack
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote: > BSDI is distributing FreeBSD now. They havent done anything useful to > support it. They are just cashing in on it. That's BS last I heard they were merging their SMP support. Btw have you submitted bug reports for your networking card? If not you have no o

Re: Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.]

2001-02-17 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:56:15PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > At 05:59 PM 02/16/2001, John Cavan wrote: > >Dennis wrote: > > > objective, arent we? > > > >You might ask yourself the same question... > > > For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet > > > drivers for the

Re: Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.]

2001-02-17 Thread Dennis
At 05:59 PM 02/16/2001, John Cavan wrote: >Dennis wrote: > > objective, arent we? > >You might ask yourself the same question... > > > For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet > > drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps > > with d

Re: Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.]

2001-02-16 Thread John Cavan
Dennis wrote: > objective, arent we? You might ask yourself the same question... > For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet > drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps > with different "features" that were of value to you. Instead