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> Remember also, complaining to the manufacturers can eventually pay off.
> Witness the recent availability of open source drivers for Yamaha PCI
> sound cards.
>
> Were I a hardware manufacturer, I wouldn't care what operating system
> was installed on the machine it was going into as long as the hardware
> was compatible (can't put an ISA card into a Mac, for example). And
> that is how the manufacturers _used_ to view things. No matter what you
> choose to blame the change on, it is still the manufacturers who are
> making it difficult.
>
still, the binary drivers *is* a start. i guess they must be wondering why
even with drivers the major distributions aren't contcating htem about
licensing issues with including it in their main distro! :) in general something
in GNU/Linux without source .tar.gz, i don't use it ...
back to the point, until they open source the drivers, or better still release
it under some free license, i ain't gonna vote to include htem in the distro.
--
Geoff
