Re: Linux stifles innovation...

Francis Galiegue (fg@mandrakesoft.com)
Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:19:42 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:

>
> Uniform support from most of the hard- and software vendors on this
> planet. Support for 50.000+ different hardware expansions with all
> their features from grabber cards to color printers and network cards
> to 3D graphics accelerators for their whole product line.
>
> That's not innovation, you're correct. But that's 99% of what users
> care about.
>

Yeah, which means: users don't care whether the driver is closed- or
open-source. Why not making it open source, then?

No matter how hard one will yell it around - vendors don't lose anything in
releasing open source drivers and/or specs; on the opposite, they gain broader
support.

-- 
Francis Galiegue, fg@mandrakesoft.com - Normand et fier de l'être
"Programming is a race between programmers, who try and make more and more
idiot-proof software, and universe, which produces more and more remarkable
idiots. Until now, universe leads the race"  -- R. Cook

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