Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:39:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 02:18 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> > I am convinced that the only way to stop the erosion is to totally stop
> > buying hardware that has only binary only drivers

> this only works if more people than "just Andrea and Arjan" do it
> though.

This worked very well in the late 1990's, when various
sites had Linux hardware compatibility lists.

Does anybody still maintain a list like that today (with
components, not just whole certified systems) ?


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