OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Guy Fraser]

On Wed, 2006-15-02 at 14:18 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> 2006-02-14 (火) の 11:49 -0600 に Les Mikesell さんは書きました:
> > 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.
> 
> Biases and misperceptions about the GPL have done ...
> 
> > 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.)

For the most part, unfortunately yes. FreeBSD supported many SATA 
chip sets before Linux. I am not sure what else it supports better,
because we only use it on servers. When I tryed to use it for a 
workstation, it was difficult to set up, and there was no support 
for CD-ROM access in wine. Since wine was seriously broken for 
extended periods by RH, I no longer use it, but use tsclient, and 
have an old Compaq running Win2k for the apps I need. FreeBSD 
does support tsclient, but is still a bear to configure as a 
workstation.

> 
> Is there a full moon out tonight?
> 
> > 
> > -- 
> >    Les Mikesell
> >     lesmikesell at gmail.com
> > 
> >