OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption
Joel Rees
rees at dsic.jp
Wed Feb 15 05:18:12 UTC 2006
2006-02-14 (火) の 11:49 -0600 に Les Mikesell さんは書きました:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:49, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > >
> > > Nvidia, ESS, S3, et al, don't have to buy documents to find out how to
> > > make their hardware work on Linux, but they don't. They'd like, if they
> >
> > Just for clarity, are you saying NVidia does not provide drivers for
> > Linux?
> > They most certainly do, and they are good drivers. They may have a
> > binary component which is not open source, but that is not relevant
> > to this topic.
>
> No, that should be a different topic: How the GPL sabotages open
> source adoption. The GPL restrictions have done more to
> maintain the Microsoft monopoly than any Microsoft employee.
Biases and misperceptions about the GPL have done ...
> Even when a vendor tries their best to supply drivers it
> doesn't work out very well and they aren't accepted in the
> distributions.
So, *BSD should have better driver availability that Linux? (Except for
openBSD, since Theo enforces the mutual free licensing principle outside
the contract.)
Is there a full moon out tonight?
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
>
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