Dne, 31. 12. 2010 21:08:27 je Doug napisal(a):
On 12/31/2010 12:50 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:03:24 -0500 (EST)
Stephen Powell<zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote:
Manufacturers are not doing this because the consumer wants it.
They
are doing it to cut costs.
/snip/
they get away with it because most people run windows, the mfr
provides
the driver, and when it breaks, people expect it because it's
windows.
/snip/
You will always be in trouble with hardware under Linux because of
the
lack of mfr's drivers, and when they do provide drivers they are
generally binary objects, e.g. NVIDIA.
It's very frustrating, so I for one appreciate your rant :-)
Brian
Why does it bother you that the driver is a binary? Are you
qualified to
modify it if you had the source code? Certainly 99% of us are not,
nor
would we want to if we could. In the immortal words of Anne Landers,
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
Precisely the problem. I had this problem with at least two pieces of
hardware:
- a Belkin PCMCIA wireless card that lost any support about 2 years
after I purchased it. No Windows after XP support it. As opposed to
that, I can easily make it work in Debian via ndiswrapper. Now just
imagine if that driver wasn't binary: Linux volunteers would probably
support it for another 10-20 years.
- the in-built Broadcom wireless card in my laptop. Has been having
problems from the very beginning. Uses a binary blob. In my experience,
if there was no binary blob, and the development was handed over to the
Linux community, the card would probably work without a hitch.
Just my 2¢. YMMV
I just don't TRUST proprietary developers.
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