At Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:02:33 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > On 03-Jan-2006, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > I wish there were some clear solution to this issue.... > > > > There is, simply not supporting companies that refuse to give > > specifications to their hardware, and nagging them to release these > > specs. > > Which is not a solution unless everyone else does the same.
Before buying my new computer, I looked at the graphics card available, but there wasn't a single PCIe card with full specs available. So there isn't an option of "not supporting those companies". > As for Linux, that's certainly a sore spot. Many kernel developers are > happy dealing with the devil. Fortunately, there are also many like > Greg Kroah-Hartman: > > <URL:http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html> > <URL:http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2005-October/011317.html> > <URL:http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/11/21/> http://lwn.net/Articles/162686/ is also a good read. Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
