From: "Nikolaos D. Bougalis" <nikb@webmaster.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Binary Drivers
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:33:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <458A7F01.90901@webmaster.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7t39Q-Ru-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Why vendor has a right to restrict me to a few existing OSes?
Manufacturers design product as they see fit and offer it on the market; I
don't see nVidia or ATI thugs twisting your arm behind you as you walk down
the aisle of Fry's Electronics saying "buy this nice card we made or I'll
break your arm."
The bottom line is this: companies speak dollarese expertly. If you don't
like product X because it does not include specs or don't like the policies of
its manufacturer towards the community then vote with your wallet.
-n
next parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-21 12:38 UTC|newest]
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2006-12-21 12:33 ` Nikolaos D. Bougalis [this message]
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2006-12-27 11:55 ` Binary Drivers Nikolaos D. Bougalis
2006-12-26 11:20 Martin Knoblauch
2006-12-26 13:28 ` James C Georgas
2006-12-26 13:57 ` Martin Knoblauch
2006-12-26 16:37 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-28 8:59 ` Rok Markovic
2006-12-28 9:07 ` Trent Waddington
2006-12-28 22:32 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-28 22:34 ` David Lang
2006-12-26 19:12 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-26 23:37 ` Horst H. von Brand
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2006-12-26 11:13 Martin Knoblauch
2006-12-26 11:33 ` Trent Waddington
2006-12-26 14:04 ` Martin Knoblauch
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2006-12-22 21:27 ` Robert Hancock
2006-12-22 23:15 ` Nikolaos D. Bougalis
2006-12-21 21:15 Niklas Steinkamp
2006-12-22 19:22 ` Rok Markovic
2006-12-22 22:00 ` Wolfgang Draxinger
2006-12-22 22:14 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-23 7:19 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-23 23:11 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-24 6:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-12-24 13:31 ` Wolfgang Draxinger
2006-12-24 17:33 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-24 19:27 ` James C Georgas
2006-12-24 21:05 ` Rok Markovic
2006-12-25 0:09 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-24 20:20 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-25 0:30 ` Wolfgang Draxinger
2006-12-26 0:20 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-26 2:49 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-26 6:31 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-26 19:20 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-26 19:53 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-27 1:20 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-28 13:32 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-15 21:20 James Porter
2006-12-15 21:59 ` Alan
2006-12-15 22:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-18 14:31 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-12-15 22:01 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-12-16 1:57 ` Tomas Carnecky
2006-12-16 18:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-18 14:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-21 16:33 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-21 17:43 ` Erik Mouw
2006-12-21 19:10 ` Tomas Carnecky
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2006-12-21 19:42 ` Tomas Carnecky
2006-12-21 22:36 ` Dave Neuer
2006-12-21 20:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-21 20:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-21 22:02 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-21 20:50 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-21 20:58 ` David Lang
2006-12-21 21:20 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-12-21 22:12 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-21 23:20 ` Martin Mares
2006-12-22 0:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-12-22 9:47 ` Wolfgang Draxinger
2006-12-23 1:04 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-16 3:56 ` jdow
2006-12-16 4:59 ` Dave Airlie
2006-12-17 11:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-12-16 8:08 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-16 9:07 ` Marek Wawrzyczny
2006-12-17 12:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-12-18 9:51 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
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