On Tuesday 21 February 2006 8:01 am, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
This is really bad. It gives too much fuel to MS to spread more fud. I have been watching the discussion of the FACTORY list. The biggest problem I see with Linux is drivers and getting support for them from commecial enterprises. I am afraid that this aids manufactures of devices to choose not to support Linux. Look at ATI and nVidia, .... We have a hard time getting people to provide drivers for Linux as it is now. This has aided some driver manufactorers to say why support Linux. I had this happen this week. A client that has been on SUSE Linux since 9.0 and was considering upgrading to SLES and newer version of Linux had the hardware people tell him they would not be supporting Linux in the future. He called all worked up about my convincing him to go with Linux and now he is not going to be able to use it because of this issue. He is now looking for a MS consultant and going to be moving from Linux. This was really bad timing for me.
It's bad timing for everyone, and is pure STUPIDITY!! Those knuckleheads who work on the kernel had better get a reality check and get it QUICKLY!! Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x