On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 12:21:01 at 12:21:01PM -0400, Colburn (kd4e@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > Pitiful.) > > Anyhow, while on one hand the open source movement has created an > environment well defended against M$ co-opting Linux and BSD the lack of > a unified voice and significant user base makes it impossible to > pressure hardware manufacturers to provide Linux drivers. > And looking at the wrong problem in the wrong way doesn't make it any better. If everybody created his own OS, but just stopped to buy hardware whose interface specifications are not Free/standard, after 2 quarters Wall Street and market analists would be the best "united voice" you might want. No need whatsoever to impose the same OS on anybody, regardless of its license conditions. Similarly, there would be no need for HW manufacturers to provide the drivers themselves, just the *interface* specs. Voting with your wallet is all the pressure you need, even if it weren't the only possible in some cases. Ciao, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ In a hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the type of house I lived in, or the kinds of clothes I wore, but the world may be much different because I was important in the life of a child Author unknown
