Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:08:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:08:46 -0500 Received: from mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com ([216.71.84.35]:29750 "EHLO mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:08:31 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:19:42 +0100 (CET) From: Francis Galiegue To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux stifles innovation... In-Reply-To: <96oau0$j6q$1@forge.intermeta.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > > Uniform support from most of the hard- and software vendors on this > planet. Support for 50.000+ different hardware expansions with all > their features from grabber cards to color printers and network cards > to 3D graphics accelerators for their whole product line. > > That's not innovation, you're correct. But that's 99% of what users > care about. > Yeah, which means: users don't care whether the driver is closed- or open-source. Why not making it open source, then? No matter how hard one will yell it around - vendors don't lose anything in releasing open source drivers and/or specs; on the opposite, they gain broader support. -- Francis Galiegue, fg@mandrakesoft.com - Normand et fier de l'?tre "Programming is a race between programmers, who try and make more and more idiot-proof software, and universe, which produces more and more remarkable idiots. Until now, universe leads the race" -- R. Cook - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/