On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 03:24, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Friday 22 April 2005 16:00, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:22, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Fri April 22 2005 3:34 am, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
Hi,
On Friday 22 April 2005 02:09, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I expected Novell to do a better job on drivers with Linux......a reasonable expectation
No. Not reasonable at all if you understand how driver support works.
and one I'm sure shared by quite a few.
That for sure.
I'm sure that there's more than one reason that drivers are forthcoming, as they should be from vendors. One is that MickySoft does EVERYTHING legal and illegal to not have them be made available. MAYBE this will be the year that IBM, HP and some others, along with Novell and RH put enough pressure on OEMS to get more drivers.
It's easy to pick on M$, but the real problem is that hardware vendors do not provide drivers for Linux. M$ has no control over what OS a particular piece of hardware is used on. It's in the hardware manufacturers best interest to realize that having drivers out for the differing OS' is ultimately to their advantage, and open sourcing that information even more so. By the time a competitor can get their clone to market, the manufacturer can have newer and better products out leaving the non-innovators in the dust, and not have to worry about the overhead of writing multiple drivers for multiple OS'. Open source makes darn good (hardware) sense in this case IMO.
All very good until you find out that M$ leans on the hardware producers to stop them releasing drivers/information to the OSS world .
So we don't buy their product, they lose sales and shoot themselves in the foot, especially when we go to buy new hardware in the future, I'm more predisposed to buy hardware that I know works with my OS.
So ultimatley the blame actually DOES lie with M$ Corp and it's biggotry.
No the blame lies with the hardware manufacturers, bottom line, it's their product not M$'s. M$ is one operating system that runs on PC's not the only OS that runs on PC's.