Howdy, On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 00:03 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: <snip> > I expected to see "two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop > adoption" but didn't see anything Microsoft is doing to sabotage > adoption. They had some users that decided they didn't like > OpenOffice and thumbed their noses at management by installing Windows > and Microsoft Office again. That's not Microsoft's doing, that's > management's inability to control their employees. > > As for the laptop, yes, not every piece of hardware is going to be > supported. There's a wealth of information online that indicates what > works and what doesn't, all maintained by people with personal > experience. If folks aren't willing to take advantage of that > information, then I can't work up a lot of sympathy when their > hardware doesn't work. > > Hardware support isn't Microsoft's issue, either. It's a vendor > issue. Vendors need to be willing to write drivers for their hardware > or release specifications so someone else can write the drivers. This > is how Microsoft handles it. Vendors write drivers for Windows when > they release a piece of hardware and either release that driver on an > installation disk, or send it to Microsoft for inclusion in the > Windows OS release. If the laptop vendor didn't care to do the same > for Linux, it's not Microsoft's problem. Interesting take/points on the article for sure ;-) If you haven't already, you may want to email the author your views. I believe her email addy is at the very top of the article. taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
