On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 20:34 -0700, jdow wrote: > 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. ---- And your point is ? Why are you here ? Craig
