On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:36:16AM -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
All well and good... take the high road. But tell me where the hardware support is going to come from?? Even OS/2 had a hard time with getting devices supported in its day and it had the weight of IBM behind it and they did a lot of the work.
Well, then the OpenBSD road would seem the right one. The folks around Theo de Raadt succeeded in opening up quite a few hardware specs - and they're a lot stricter about open stuff than Linux ever has been. They just keep pestering companies and vote with their money. Linux developers/users should be in an even better position than the OpenBSD folks to succeed with something like this, as Linux' marketshare is a good deal bigger. Cheerio, Thomas