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Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Dirk Steuwer <dirk@steuwer.de>
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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:41 +0000, Dirk Steuwer wrote:
> Sander <sander <at> 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. 

The vendors will just lie like they do now.  For example M-Audio claims
all its products are supported under Linux but leave out the fact that
half of it had to be reverse engineered, lots of it still doesn't work
right for lack of docs, and whenever someone asks them about Linux
support they just punt to the ALSA mailing lists.

Lee

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