2009/7/21 Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 07/21/2009 12:04 PM, Keiran Smith wrote: >> >> Well looks like us linux users can look forward to some of the >> instabilities of windows in our Own Operating Systems. What are >> microsoft thinking > > I don't think you will be affected by this code unless you run a virtualized > Linux guest on a Windows host and if you do that... well, probably you > already have bigger problems :p And that could be a problem for us, since the opposite (Windows on top of linux) isn't that equivalent. That's because of the hardware coverrage isn't the same. (3D graphics / raid drivers / others). One could say, it will be easier for Linux to live on top of windows. That way drivers could remains closed sources and linux not a real OS anymore, just providing few services on top of the real OS. While the European Union is presuring to remove out IE from the next windows bundle, /me think it would have been more valuable to only keep the very basic hardware support layers from the OS, so everything else could have been optional. At least I can see one way to have the announcement turn into our favour. It would be to have it compared with other opensourcing announcement such the AMD/ATI one. Even if the reasons behind have nothing to be compared, it could present theses as a success story for the free software development scheme. That should have be directed to end-users asking them to keep presuring on hardware vendosr for free software solutions over proprietary ones. Nicolas (kwizart) -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
