From: Francis Galiegue <fg@mandrakesoft.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux stifles innovation...
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:19:42 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102181316380.884-100000@toy.mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96oau0$j6q$1@forge.intermeta.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-18 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-18 3:55 Linux stifles innovation Torrey Hoffman
2001-02-18 5:15 ` Ben Ford
2001-02-18 11:17 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-18 16:42 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-18 18:00 ` Gregory S. Youngblood
2001-02-18 18:04 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-19 1:36 ` Gregory S. Youngblood
2001-02-18 18:21 ` Peter Svensson
2001-02-18 11:16 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-18 12:19 ` Francis Galiegue [this message]
2001-02-18 17:50 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-18 18:13 ` Henning P . Schmiedehausen
2001-02-18 22:15 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-18 22:25 ` Steve VanDevender
2001-02-18 22:31 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-18 11:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-18 23:14 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-22 0:11 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
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2001-02-22 1:39 Leif Sawyer
2001-02-22 1:44 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-02-18 2:10 Torrey Hoffman
2001-02-16 17:21 Wayne.Brown
2001-02-15 17:49 fsnchzjr
2001-02-15 17:55 ` Stephen Frost
2001-02-15 18:04 ` Mark Haney
2001-02-15 19:49 ` David D.W. Downey
2001-02-15 20:20 ` Alan Olsen
2001-02-15 20:42 ` dave
2001-02-15 21:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-02-15 22:31 ` Bill Wendling
2001-02-15 22:37 ` William T Wilson
2001-02-16 12:45 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-16 15:10 ` James Sutherland
2001-02-16 16:02 ` Mark Haney
2001-02-16 16:26 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-16 16:30 ` Mark Haney
2001-02-16 19:23 ` David D.W. Downey
2001-02-16 20:18 ` James Sutherland
2001-02-17 0:03 ` Carlos Fernandez Sanz
2001-02-17 0:35 ` Dan Hollis
2001-02-17 0:41 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-17 1:52 ` Dan Hollis
2001-02-17 9:08 ` James Sutherland
2001-02-17 12:45 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17 9:05 ` James Sutherland
2001-02-17 0:04 ` LA Walsh
2001-02-16 9:26 ` Helge Hafting
2001-02-16 9:36 ` James Sutherland
2001-02-16 12:44 ` Helge Hafting
2001-02-16 17:40 ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-02-16 14:25 ` Andrew Scott
2001-02-16 19:48 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-02-16 22:27 ` Dennis
2001-02-16 22:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-17 16:54 ` Francois Romieu
2001-02-16 22:31 ` Dan Hollis
2001-02-16 22:51 ` David D.W. Downey
2001-02-16 23:07 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-02-16 23:45 ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-02-16 23:46 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-02-17 0:15 ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-02-17 0:34 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-17 0:54 ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-02-17 1:58 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-02-17 12:41 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17 17:51 ` Robert Read
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010217145415.31128A-100000@orion.hq.dalalu.fr>
2001-02-17 18:40 ` Henning P . Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17 0:01 ` Alan Olsen
2001-02-17 0:10 ` rjd
2001-02-17 1:34 ` Neal Dias
2001-02-17 2:05 ` Augustin Vidovic
2001-02-17 12:46 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17 13:13 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-02-21 23:00 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-02-21 23:17 ` Augustin Vidovic
2001-02-22 1:08 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-02-22 0:09 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-22 0:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-23 12:14 ` Wakko Warner
2001-02-23 12:31 ` David Weinehall
2001-02-27 8:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-02-17 7:20 ` Mike Pontillo
2001-02-17 7:39 ` Vesselin Atanasov
2001-02-17 19:08 ` Dennis
2001-02-17 19:08 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-02-17 20:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-24 21:11 ` Dennis
2001-02-24 21:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-17 19:11 ` Dennis
2001-02-17 19:36 ` Francois Romieu
2001-02-17 20:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-17 19:24 ` Dennis
2001-02-17 19:38 ` Dennis
2001-02-17 20:01 ` Michael Bacarella
2001-02-17 20:11 ` James A. Sutherland
2001-02-17 20:05 ` Dennis
2001-02-17 20:05 ` James A. Sutherland
2001-02-17 20:14 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-18 10:57 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-17 20:28 ` Alan Olsen
2001-02-21 23:48 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-02-17 22:07 ` Felix von Leitner
2001-02-17 20:08 ` Dennis
2001-02-17 20:22 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-17 20:41 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-02-18 10:59 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-18 21:02 ` Bob Taylor
2001-02-17 22:38 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-17 23:07 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-18 15:20 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-02-18 0:51 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-16 23:33 ` Hristo Doichev
2001-02-16 17:25 ` Byron Albert
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