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[Scott van Looy]

Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:

> Scott van Looy wrote:
>> 
>> Progress isn't a bad thing. Ranting at Fedora people because someone else's 
>> hardware isn't easy to make work on their OS is a bit silly though.
>
> But, but, but... What's the point of an OS if it doesn't make it easy to use 
> hardware????

To operate the CPU(s) - hardware support is optional and often in obscure 
places absent or wonky at best. Device drivers are the single thing that 
causes more problems with _all_ OSen than anything else. If my webcam 
didn't work under vista I'd blame the webcam manufacturer for not having 
created drivers that work, not Microsoft for not having anticipated a 
webcam of a certain type.

>> Would you moan at redhat if you couldn't get Oracle to work on it, yet 
>> Oracle claimed linux compatibility?
>
> Of course.  There's not much excuse for screwing up interfaces that an OS is 
> supposed to provide.

And the fact that everyone at Redhat would tell you to talk to Oracle for 
writing broken software wouldn't dissuade you?

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