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Scott van Looy
scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Mon Oct 29 16:34:16 UTC 2007
Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
> Scott van Looy wrote:
>>
>> Progress isn't a bad thing. Ranting at Fedora people because someone else's
>> hardware isn't easy to make work on their OS is a bit silly though.
>
> But, but, but... What's the point of an OS if it doesn't make it easy to use
> hardware????
To operate the CPU(s) - hardware support is optional and often in obscure
places absent or wonky at best. Device drivers are the single thing that
causes more problems with _all_ OSen than anything else. If my webcam
didn't work under vista I'd blame the webcam manufacturer for not having
created drivers that work, not Microsoft for not having anticipated a
webcam of a certain type.
>> Would you moan at redhat if you couldn't get Oracle to work on it, yet
>> Oracle claimed linux compatibility?
>
> Of course. There's not much excuse for screwing up interfaces that an OS is
> supposed to provide.
And the fact that everyone at Redhat would tell you to talk to Oracle for
writing broken software wouldn't dissuade you?
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