Re: Binary Drivers

Martin Mares
2006-12-21T23:42:06Z

Hello!

> I disagree. The manufacturer has a right to choose to sell its devices
> under any legal business model. Part of that model is deciding what
> level of support to provide and what systems to support in selling it.

At the very least, if they decide that they wish to provide a binary-only
driver for i386, then their claims that they support Linux (without telling
that they in fact support a single specific variant of Linux) are
(a) blatant lie, and (b) false advertising.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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