Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751129AbVLHK06 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 05:26:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751114AbVLHK06 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 05:26:58 -0500 Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.92]:263 "EHLO anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751129AbVLHK05 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 05:26:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4397E427.2070702@laposte.net> References: <6DAD0850-4943-416E-9E7B-095C6B412DD0@oxley.org> <4397E427.2070702@laposte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6A700AF6-1E1B-49A7-A565-336700882097@oxley.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Arjan van de Ven , Jesse Barnes , Pekka Enberg , Jon Masters , Grahame White , Benjamin LaHaise , "Randy.Dunlap" , Lars Marowsky-Bree , "linux-os ((Dick Johnson))" , Rik van Riel , Dirk Steuwer , Andrea Arcangeli , Lee Revell Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Felix Oxley Subject: Re: Linux Hardware Quality Labs (was: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:26:53 +0000 To: Nicolas Mailhot X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1538 Lines: 42 On 8 Dec 2005, at 07:43, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > I think the current focus on the logo idea is pretty sad. The only > real > "feature" a logo adds is it will have to be maintained by Someone > Else. > Which is always nice. Except when the real info is in the kernel > maintainers heads, as is the real love of free software, being > maintained by Someone Else means it'll fail. > > A good exhaustive online centralised hardware database, blessed and > maintained by kernel people, will have influence with or without a > logo. > The benefits of a 'paper' logo are as follows: 1. It builds 'brand' awareness 2. It means that when you take a piece of hardware of the shelf in the store you don't need to check an online database for compatibility. > their faith in a paper logo. Which is pretty ridiculous. Give users a > good database and they won't need the paper thingy (not to mention > drivers are completed after hardware ships, so all the already- > packaged > hardware won't get a linux logo by magic) I presume that drivers will be developed alongside the hardware because you can't sell the kit until the drivers are on the CD in the nice box with the instruction manual. Also you can't test the hardware properly unless you have drivers for it. regards, Felix - 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/