Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread sebastian . rother
Hi everybody, I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. Hopefully some people sign up and name also OpenBSD (in the optional-section). It's about VIAs policy with docs/drivers and the lies they spread (about supporting Opensouce). Link: http://www.petitiononline.com

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Andrés
On Jan 28, 2008 4:10 PM, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:11:53AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. Hopefully some people sign up and name also OpenBSD (in the optional

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:11:53AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. Hopefully some people sign up and name also OpenBSD (in the optional-section). It's about VIAs policy with docs/drivers and the lies

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. http://www.petitiononline.com/vialinux/petition.html The petition authors don't get it... Other manufacturers, such as Intel, cooperate with the Free Software community providing Linux drivers as good as the Windows ones

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Richard Daemon
On Jan 28, 2008 5:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. Hopefully some people sign up and name also OpenBSD (in the optional-section). It's about VIAs policy with docs/drivers and the lies they spread (about

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Breen Ouellette
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. Hopefully some people sign up and name also OpenBSD (in the optional-section). It's about VIAs policy with docs/drivers and the lies they spread (about supporting Opensouce). Link: http

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread Ioan Nemes
AndrC)s [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29/01/2008 09:24 On Jan 28, 2008 4:10 PM, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:11:53AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA. Hopefully some people sign up

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread chefren
On 1/29/08 12:17 AM, Andris wrote: I won't sign anything which uses the word Linux. Ask for documentation for UNIX-like operating systems for Christ's sake. Just documentation without unnecessary strings attached will do. So no NDA's, Non Disclosure Agreements. +++chefren

Re: Petition to VIA

2008-01-28 Thread johan beisser
On Jan 28, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Gilles Chehade wrote: RELEASE DECENT LINUX DRIVERS! I won't sign and I doubt it is a good idea to say to a vendor that we want decent drivers when this will only encourage them into providing blobs instead of documentation. The average user doesn't know the