Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[Da Rock]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 15:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Francis Earl wrote:
> > 
> > There is nothing you can really do about nvidia and ati, nothing but
> > reverse engineer things, or force them to open up the specs.
> 
> Of course there is: provide a stable interface for drivers and cooperate 
> with instead of subverting the vendors that try to improve your product.
> 
> > To answer your question, yes it does feel good being part of a minority
> > that asks "how are they able to get away with that?", and makes an
> > effort to ensure the industry can't rape users anymore. 
> 
> Industry can only rape users if there is no competition.  Users choose 
> what they buy.  The way to help them is to increase the available choices.
> 
> > It speaks more
> > loudly for the ignorance of society at large that these things are even
> > an issue.
> 
> No, it means that you aren't addressing the real issue at all.  The real 
> problem is that Microsoft has no competition, and by working to ensure 
> that Linux distributions cannot contain everything they need to be a 
> competitor, you are helping them maintain their monopoly status and 
> their ability to rape users.

Here, here. You have put more eloquently than any other on this list.