a call to action [Fwd: LWN headline: Blame Fedora = High Praise]

[Rahul Sundaram]

Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Agreed. It's a nice way of getting legal support for these things should the
>> user opt for them, while still keeping the Fedora as-is Free.
> 
> Perhaps this could be expanded in some way.
> 
> If Fedora finds any unsupported hardware it could display a dialog
> informing the user:
> 
> - device class and vendor
> - link to vendors homepage
> - vendors contact to click (thus launching the email client) and ask for
> linux-support (pre-filled email-text ?)
> - link to fedoras wiki for explaning
> 	a) why this happened (binary only firmware, ...)
> 	b) instructions to get it running

I did suggest something very similar at 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-March/msg00139.html
Apparently there isn't much traction to this idea.

Rahul