On 08/10/05, Kevin Donnelly
Instead of complaining about Novell, complain to your congressman or other elected representative, if they're not already in the pockets of some large corporation or other. (Indeed, if more US citizens had done this before the DMCA became law, its pernicious influence would not have spread any farther.) If Novell gets sued as a "test case", and that brings down the rest of the distro, it is hardly a price worth paying. Use oggs instead (and again, if more consumers refused to buy iPod or "Plays for Sure" crap, the manufacturers would start ensuring that the ogg format was better supported - see http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/guide). If mp3s are actually vital to your existence, use Microsoft Windows, which has cartel agreements with other corporations.
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Pob hwyl / Best wishes
Kevin Donnelly
Wholeheartedly agreed :-) It follows the smae line as I have been spouting (sorry to go on but somebody has to) about hardware and manufacturers not writing drivers for Linux. It is not difficult to do. I have a friend who I encouraged to try SuSE 9.3. His didgital camera did not work under Linux. So, this guy, sat down and wrote a set of drivers for it. It took him about half an hour for goodness sake. So I will repeat myself here.. IF THE HARDWARE YOU ARE CONSIDERING BUYING IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH LINUX DON'T BUY IT AND LET THE MANUFACTURER KNOW ABOUT YOUR DECISION! My apologies for doing that in capitals. Anyway, I'm not alone in my thoughts as Klaus Knopper (Knoppix) is now saying pretty much the same. End of the day it is going to make life a lot easier for all of us if development time can be switched from writing drivers for hardware that manufacturers should be writing to speeding up applications like Open Office org. :-) -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR