Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932321AbVLFQv3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:51:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932323AbVLFQv3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:51:29 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:14253 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932321AbVLFQv2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:51:28 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Dirk Steuwer Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 16:41:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051205121851.GC2838@holomorphy.com> <20051206011844.GO28539@opteron.random> <43944F42.2070207@didntduck.org> <20051206104652.GB3354@favonius> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 213.61.178.52 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1192 Lines: 22 Sander humilis.net> writes: > > Quite a few companies state on their site that their hardware is > supported in Linux if it is. > > And I've never bought any computer equipment in a shop. Always online, > where there is no such thing as a box anyway > Yes, but there isn't and won't be much recognition - every company does its own thing. And how many people buy online all the time? But even then, a genery "runs with Linux" Logo would be great. If a company's product is not certified, its not considered by Linux customers. Also you could hold up figures from certified hardware to impress and argue against companies that think there is no real market for Linux. There needs to be a way to breack out of the chicken and egg problem - no linux market, no linux hardware. Corporate Customers can afford to do research, expert staff does the buying. But the average homeuser? He needs a generic sign, as simple as that. Dirk - 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/