FC4 or FC5

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 20:34 -0700, jdow wrote:
> From: "Sean" <seanlkml at sympatico.ca>
> 
> > On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:58:38 -0700 (PDT)
> > BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley at 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.
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And your point is ?

Why are you here ?

Craig