Okay. As luck would have it, LINUX, being very poor, has not the clout or $ to acquire codes required to run certain hardware. So, who is hurt? Further, representations/documentation made by vendors of code called generically, linux, has been found to be often incorrect and/or insufficient. Some, if not all, such vendors irresponsibly offer no support or recompense, hiding behind legalese "software agreements" or bankruptcy. Again, who is the loser with respect to the stated situation? Rumblings have been heard about certain remedies that have been, might be, could be, have been, etc. sought against a monopolistic software vendor. The hardware codes that belong to vendors, which have been delivered, apparently, to Microsoft, have they been delivered to other vendors as well? Does Big Blue complain that its unix or linux or mainframe will not run certain hardware, or are their fixes that the public may not know about?
References on linux: Which version? Do such references offer a cookbook to get included software up and running? Let the buyer beware. Speaking of "books that do not work" (who wrote that stuff?), historically,some books have worked while others have not.
