On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 15:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Francis Earl wrote: > > > > There is nothing you can really do about nvidia and ati, nothing but > > reverse engineer things, or force them to open up the specs. > > Of course there is: provide a stable interface for drivers and cooperate > with instead of subverting the vendors that try to improve your product. > > > To answer your question, yes it does feel good being part of a minority > > that asks "how are they able to get away with that?", and makes an > > effort to ensure the industry can't rape users anymore. > > Industry can only rape users if there is no competition. Users choose > what they buy. The way to help them is to increase the available choices. > > > It speaks more > > loudly for the ignorance of society at large that these things are even > > an issue. > > No, it means that you aren't addressing the real issue at all. The real > problem is that Microsoft has no competition, and by working to ensure > that Linux distributions cannot contain everything they need to be a > competitor, you are helping them maintain their monopoly status and > their ability to rape users. Here, here. You have put more eloquently than any other on this list. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
