Dear Fedora Community, what do you want?
Polashek, Matthew
Matthew.Polashek at scottforesman.com
Thu Jun 3 17:04:27 UTC 2004
There's a good pint here regarding fiscal issues. I may easily be mistaken
but didn't I hear that Linux systems are now more prevalent than Macintosh
systems? That may have been over all (Including servers and TIVO) but I am
certain the Linux desktop will eventually overtake Macintosh for the number
2 desktop spot.
Matthew
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> From: Andy Green
> Reply To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2004 12:58 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Dear Fedora Community, what do you want?
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> On Thursday 03 June 2004 16:52, Scott Sloan wrote:
>
> > I know nothing is for certain (besides: death and taxes :) but I would
> > like to write the email just to get the issue out there. so I'm asking
> > What do we want from manufactures? Just great stable drivers? GPL
> > drivers? And How can we convince them that writing drivers for Linux is
> > worth their time?
>
> They don't have to write the drivers for Linux: if you look on sf people
> have
> done amazing work reverse-engineering protocols and making their own
> drivers.
>
> What they should do is
>
> - document their hardware registers/protocols openly, and / or
>
> - provide code for core driver functionality in a way that is OS
> independent,
> not sample code but the actual core code from the Windows driver
>
> Then coders can come to the device hugely empowered to make a really
> superior
> driver, not from backbreaking puzzling out functionality but from real
> docs
> or real code.
>
> Linux people are all the time trying to figure out which vendor to buy
> devices
> from for good Linux support, a vendor announcing this strategy is
> guaranteed
> to get my money if their device is decent and decently priced.
>
> - -Andy
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