On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:41:49 -0700 (PDT) BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And this may be the very reason why we can not get the drivers for our hardware > distributed with Suse anymore. > > If there is no legal way around this, Suse Desktop will be a thing of the past > for the general desktop user (e.g. home user who is not technical). > > Suse and other Linux vendors will not have a snow balls chance in you > know where in competing against MS Windows with out drivers. > > This would include USB devices as well. > That's just FUD. We're already starting to see open source drivers for 3d video trickle in; yeah it's slow. But that's a hell of a lot better than giving up all the freedoms open source offers just to get some short term extra hardware support. There is already a perfectly acceptable closed source operating system available, there's no reason to make another. Sean
