On 2/26/07, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The most sensible way for Dell to approach this is the require
certification from their component vendors. Doing the certs
themselves would be too expensive. It would also leave them
exposed when their vendors made changes to their product, something
companies do all the time to save money. But if the vendor
is responsible for certs, then they have to recertify when
they make a revision.
All of this will be excellent for us since it means more
vendors will feel pressure to be Linux compatible and certify
that they are.
And of course the easiest way to get Linux certified components is to
have gpl'd or open source drivers and the cheapest way to get those is
to provide full and complete documentation to interested developers
http://www.kroah.com/log/2007/01/29/#free_drivers
I sense a virtuous cycle in the making...
and if that scenario took hold then Theo De Raadt would have to find
something else to pick fights about
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2007-02/0891.html
( Dell would never sell machines with OpenBSD preinstalled,
after all they might have compromised the system when they loaded the
machine...
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. )
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