From: "Sean" <seanlkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:58:38 -0700 (PDT)
BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes it is quite evident that you like the GPL as it is, from all of your post.
However, please do not recommend it to people who need hardware
drivers on Laptops (as an example) that do not exist because the GPL
Kernal Devs have decided to change Linux (future changes comming)
so that they will not function with anything but GPL drivers.
Suse Linux 10.1 is now distributed without any non-GPL drivers
where as in 10.0, many were included so that many Laptops and
ALL of their hardware (WIFI, Modems) worked.
I think that the frustration for many is that we were hoping that Linux
would really evolve into a platform that was a fully functional alternative
to Windows. Some Distros were getting close. Now it looks like it will
be a very, very, very..., long time before the dawn.... if ever....
Hey Bruce,
There are some laptops with pretty much full GPL support already. Sometimes
with an omissions for certain pieces of hardware like winmodems or 3d chipsets.
But for whatever reason i'm a bit more optimistic than you seem to be about the
future of GPL hardware support, especially in the long term. Time will tell.
Cheers,
Sean
Yeah, little toy obsolete piece of junk notebooks. An operating system
that will not operate on my hardware as I want my hardware configured
is a toy, a hobby piece, at best and at worst a piece of trivial junk.
I do NOT like communist drips like RMS dictating what *I* can do with
my machine. I like even less the intrusive nature of his license such
that it can intrude upon my personal life and work.
You might like it. I do not. And I bristle just a tad when somebody
tries to tell me that just because I do not have hardware of the
wrong hardware race I have to sit in the back of the bus. I tend to
hold a singular digit, the middle one, in front of their faces when
they try to tell me that.
{^_^}
