Dear Fedora Community, what do you want?

[Steve Brown]

I want support for:

    1.  Wireless LAN - detected and configured automatically.
    2.  Sony camera, via USB port.  Connect it and it automatically 
mounts.  My current workaround is a card reader.
    3.  Sony network walkman (mp3 player, sort of).  Uses memory sticks 
with 'magic gate' protection scheme, not supported by Linux.  Must use 
Windows to load it up with songs.
    4. Sony (see a pattern yet?) photo printer.  I store photos on my 
linux-only home PC, but when I want to print them, I have to hook up the 
laptop.

I think it's inexcusable that a company the size of Sony is virtually 
ignoring the existence of Linux.  I think I searched for "linux" on one 
of its websites and it came up empty.

Scott Sloan wrote:

>I had a discussion with a friend about a week ago about Linux and
>hardware support. Basically it was the endless loop that " Linux's
>popularity is directly related to the amount of hardware support which
>is based on it's popularity of the OS"
>
>So I took the question to the other side of the fence to a friend who
>works in high upper management, who's words carries a lot of weight, for
>a highly respected hardware manufacture, well at least for printers in
>my book. 
>
>"Give me a list of what the Linux community is seeking as far as
>hardware support and I'll see if I can get some bodies working on it.
>With a convincing email or two and we should be able to get it done"
>
>I know nothing is for certain (besides: death and taxes  :) but I would
>like to write the email just to get the issue out there. so I'm asking
>What do we want from manufactures? Just great stable drivers? GPL
>drivers? And How can we convince them that writing drivers for Linux is
>worth their time? 
>
>  
>


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Steven J. Brown
Value Line, Inc.
Business A*nalyst / Programmer
212-907-1650 (NY)
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