On 2008-06-03, Moshe Goldfarb. <brick_n_straw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:48:45 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>
>> VIA's Linux portal.
>>
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>>| In summary, signs you may be 'doing it wrong':
>>|
>>| * Your open source portal doesn't have any source code or documentation.
>>| * Upstream developers have to resort to using disassemblers and similar
>>| tools to find out what changes you made.
>>| * You release binary blobs for 'the latest distros'.
>>| * You aspire to be 'more like moblin.
>>| * An absence of participation in existing driver efforts. How many
>>| drivers for unichrome do we need anyway?
>>| * You distribute .ko files clearly marked with MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
>>| without corresponding source. Normally, this sort of thing isn't taken
>>| lightly. Why is this any different?
>>|
>>| I'm beginning to think the only way VIA will ever really 'get it together' is
>>| if they employed someone from the Linux community who actually understands
>>| how all this works, because it seems someone in Taiwan isn't getting the
>>| memos.
>
> As predicted in COLA months ago when the announcement was made.
> VIA probably figured out that Open Source is a total waste of time for
> them.
VIA is a waste of time for people in general.
They have been like this for a long time.
They are the masters of crap even if you're running Windows.
>
> Of course VIA makes shit products anyhow so you Linux loons are actually
> lucky they are not writing stuff for Linux.
VIA is like Microsoft: largely irrelevant to me.
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