On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 07:56 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Matthew Gardiner wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Coopersmith" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: "Alan DuBoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > <opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org> > > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:17 PM > > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community. > > > > > >> Matthew Gardiner wrote: > >>> x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to > >>> improve the user experience in either hardware support or software > >>> availability. > >> > >> You think nvidia video drivers, wifi drivers, Macromedia Flash, and all > >> the other drivers & software appeared on their own for x86 with no effort > >> by Sun? If so, you're very mistaken. > > > > When am I going to see support for my USB webcam? infact, a large number > > of products in my laptop made by Ricoh, who are more than happy to > > provide specifications to those who want them? > > > > Or will it be the typical defence of Solaris engineers - "its designed > > for servers, who needs webcams" blah blah blah blah? > > I haven't heard anyone say it's only for servers in a very long time. > I'm sorry you have devices not yet supported, but just because we haven't > hit every possible device in the world doesn't mean Sun has done nothing > at all - it's just prioritized along different priorities than yours. > But the whole point of OpenSolaris is to allow anyone to set their own > priorities for developing code and not be stuck waiting for Sun to do > things in the order set by Sun's priorities.
Sorry :-( Like I said, I get crabby and impatient. A little time in the 'time out corner' made me think about what I said. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
