OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:49, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > 
> > Nvidia, ESS, S3, et al, don't have to buy documents to find out how to
> > make their hardware work on Linux, but they don't.  They'd like, if they
> 
> Just for clarity, are you saying NVidia does not provide drivers for 
> Linux?
> They most certainly do, and they are good drivers. They may have a 
> binary component which is not open source, but that is not relevant 
> to this topic.

No, that should be a different topic: How the GPL sabotages open
source adoption.  The GPL restrictions have done more to
maintain the Microsoft monopoly than any Microsoft employee.
Even when a vendor tries their best to supply drivers it
doesn't work out very well and they aren't accepted in the
distributions.

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   Les Mikesell
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