En/na Theodore Tso ha escrit: > I could have a working system (including, by the way, using binary > drivers), I wasn't throwing rotten tomatoes and screaming at laptop > vendors who chose to use closed hardware which didn't support Linux. Neither do I: I *bought* an Internet Tablet after all. Still, I think they can improve the "opennes" of the hardware. > I chose to avoid buying Sony laptops, since they were the worst in > terms of proprietary hardware with Windows-only drivers, but I > accepted why they made the business decisions that they did. As I accept the reason many cheap router manufacturer use broadcom wares, but I also know that their main selling point isn't opennes, and I personally try to avoid broadcom stuff. [...] > Just three years ago, I used used binary video drivers from ATI as the > only way I could get the needed functionality for my laptop. Now, I > used and recommend to others using the laptops that contain Intel > video chipsets, because of Intel's release of open source, high > quality video drivers. I'd say the same here. Three years ago there was no usable alternative to ati/nvidia, now there's intel. And there's atheros, ralink, intel producing free (firmware/hal notwithstanding, but those don't really limit my freedom to switch os or kernel version) wifi drivers. > So things are moving in the right direction, but in some areas change > may come quicker than others. The trick is to helpfully engage with > vendors and help them work with their suppliers --- and not just throw > rocks. There must be a bad cop to play "bad cop, good cop" ;-) (just kidding). > The former is usually for more productive than the latter. > You catch very few flies with vinegar.... Well, that's actually wrong ;-) http://xkcd.com/357/ Bye -- Luca _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
