OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 05:28:18 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 23:18, Joel Rees wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> So, *BSD should have better driver availability that Linux? (Except for
> openBSD, since Theo enforces the mutual free licensing principle outside
> the contract.)

Yes, someone could build a real competitor to Windows - something
like OSX.

> Is there a full moon out tonight?

Oh wait, they already did.  Unfortunately it was someone who
insists on bundling overpriced hardware with it.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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