Les wrote: <snip>
But if one already has a system running windows and converts to Linux, this is not a good option. The software should run with stuff that is already working to be a good product. Otherwise we will just continue to be an "also ran" operating system.
Les, if you can convince some of the hardware makers (nVidia, TI, Broadcom and several others) to open the hardware (publish the specs on the chips and such), then Linux developers can build drivers for them and get them off the snide. The requirement to use proprietary binary blobs the maker provides because they're afraid of what evils the open source community may cause using their hardware (TI's wireless chips can be set to transmit at very high power levels and at bogus frequencies) or to protect a "trade secret" (the fact that we can figure out how to interface to the binary blobs make this a less tangible reason) will ALWAYS relegate Linux to "also ran" status. If you're a conspiracy fan, perhaps there's some $$$ trading hands betwixt Micro$oft and the hardware makers. They've done it before, the sods! I don't agree with M$ business practices and never have. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't TOUCH anything!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
