Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] Ubuntu Has Incorporated Proprietary Drivers From the Start

(Mark Shuttleworth:) Binary-only codecs, nyet

,----[ Quote ]
| Ubuntu has included firmware, and used proprietary drivers since its
| inception. That?s always been a slightly uncomfortable proposition, as
| Mako observed, but it's been true since the Warty Warthog.
`----

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/84

Also see:

A Challenge To Canonical, Red Hat, Novell, Linspire, and All Linux
Distributors: Put Up or Shut Up

,----[ Quote ]
| A carrot-and-stick approach ought to do the job. The carrot is
| developer support, community goodwill, and increased sales. Thes
| tick is all those nice Linux customers spend their money elsewhere,
| plus the usual public carping on mail lists, forums, and blogs.
| 
| So what do you say, Linux distributors? Does this sound unreasonable?
| Can you please take a time out from endlessly forking and doing your
| own things, and finding more excuses to bundle binary proprietary code,
| and instead work together to resolve this problem? 
`----

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/75435/index.html

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index