Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread johan beisser
On Jan 28, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Gilles Chehade wrote: "RELEASE DECENT LINUX DRIVERS!" I won't sign and I doubt it is a good idea to say to a vendor that we want decent drivers when this will only encourage them into providing blobs instead of documentation. The average user doesn't know the

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread chefren
On 1/29/08 12:17 AM, Andris wrote: I won't sign anything which uses the word Linux. Ask for documentation for UNIX-like operating systems for Christ's sake. Just documentation without unnecessary strings attached will do. So no NDA's, Non Disclosure Agreements. +++chefren

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Ioan Nemes
>>> "AndrC)s" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29/01/2008 09:24 >>> On Jan 28, 2008 4:10 PM, Gilles Chehade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:11:53AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. > > Hopefully so

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Breen Ouellette
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. Hopefully some people sign up and name also OpenBSD (in the "optional"-section). It's about VIAs policy with docs/drivers and the lies they spread (about "supporting Opensouce"). Link: http

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Richard Daemon
On Jan 28, 2008 5:11 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. > Hopefully some people sign up and name also OpenBSD (in the > "optional"-section). > > It's about VIAs policy with docs/drivers and the lies they spread (abou

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Andrés
On Jan 28, 2008 4:10 PM, Gilles Chehade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:11:53AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. > > Hopefully some people sign up and name also OpenBSD (in the > > "op

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:11:53AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. > Hopefully some people sign up and name also OpenBSD (in the > "optional"-section). > > It's about VIAs policy with docs/drivers and the lies t

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
> I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. > http://www.petitiononline.com/vialinux/petition.html The petition authors don't get it... "Other manufacturers, such as Intel, cooperate with the Free Software community providing Linux drivers as good as the Windows ones," dr

Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread sebastian . rother
Hi everybody, I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. Hopefully some people sign up and name also OpenBSD (in the "optional"-section). It's about VIAs policy with docs/drivers and the lies they spread (about "supporting Opensouce"). Link: http://www.petitiononline.com/v