Re: a call to action [Fwd: LWN headline: Blame Fedora = High Praise]

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On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:30 +0200, Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
> Perhaps this could be expanded in some way.
> If Fedora finds any unsupported hardware it could display a dialog
> informing the user:
> - device class and vendor
> - link to vendors homepage
> - vendors contact to click (thus launching the email client) and ask for
> linux-support (pre-filled email-text ?)
> - link to fedoras wiki for explaning
> 	a) why this happened (binary only firmware, ...)
> 	b) instructions to get it running

Considering the PCI (among other) Vendor IDs are fixed and known, this
is feasible.

I have to give a third "thumbs up" on this approach.  Empower the user.
Don't lecture the user, empower the user.  Excellent idea all around.


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