OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Guy Fraser]

On Tue, 2006-14-02 at 11:49 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:49, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > > 
> > > Nvidia, ESS, S3, et al, don't have to buy documents to find out how to
> > > make their hardware work on Linux, but they don't.  They'd like, if they
> > 
> > Just for clarity, are you saying NVidia does not provide drivers for 
> > Linux?
> > They most certainly do, and they are good drivers. They may have a 
> > binary component which is not open source, but that is not relevant 
> > to this topic.
> 
> No, that should be a different topic: How the GPL sabotages open
> source adoption.  The GPL restrictions have done more to
> maintain the Microsoft monopoly than any Microsoft employee.
> Even when a vendor tries their best to supply drivers it
> doesn't work out very well and they aren't accepted in the
> distributions.

I can second that.