Re: FC4 or FC5

["jdow" <jdow earthlink net>]

From: "Sean" <seanlkml sympatico ca>

> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:58:38 -0700 (PDT)
> BRUCE STANLEY <bruce stanley prodigy net> wrote:
>
> >  Yes it is quite evident that you like the GPL as it is, from all of your post.
> >  However, please do not recommend it to people who need hardware 
> >  drivers on Laptops (as an example) that do not exist because the GPL 
> >  Kernal Devs have decided to change Linux (future changes comming)
> >  so that they will not function with anything but GPL drivers.
> >  
> >  Suse Linux 10.1 is now distributed without any non-GPL drivers
> >  where as in 10.0, many were included so that many Laptops and
> >  ALL of their hardware (WIFI, Modems) worked.
> >  
> >  I think that the frustration for many is that we were hoping that Linux
> >  would really evolve into a platform that was a fully functional alternative
> >  to Windows.  Some Distros were getting close.  Now it looks like it will
> >  be a very, very, very..., long time before the dawn.... if ever....
>
> Hey Bruce,
>
> There are some laptops with pretty much full GPL support already.  Sometimes
> with an omissions for certain pieces of hardware like winmodems or 3d chipsets.
> But for whatever reason i'm a bit more optimistic than you seem to be about the
> future of GPL hardware support, especially in the long term.  Time will tell.
>
> Cheers,
> Sean

Yeah, little toy obsolete piece of junk notebooks. An operating system
that will not operate on my hardware as I want my hardware configured
is a toy, a hobby piece, at best and at worst a piece of trivial junk.

I do NOT like communist drips like RMS dictating what *I* can do with
my machine. I like even less the intrusive nature of his license such
that it can intrude upon my personal life and work.

You might like it. I do not. And I bristle just a tad when somebody
tries to tell me that just because I do not have hardware of the
wrong hardware race I have to sit in the back of the bus. I tend to
hold a singular digit, the middle one, in front of their faces when
they try to tell me that.

{^_^}