Ringo Kamens wrote: > We need truly open software Ahh, this is a new term! I already herad people calling free software open source, but open software is new to me. But Wikipedia poited me to the Open Software Foundation which deals with Unix. So this term is associated with proprietary software.
> The main problem I see is incompatibility with hardware. I think free software runs on most relevant desktop hardware. Laptops almost alway have a wirleless LAN card or stick which is hardly supported. And there is a lack of 3D Acceleration. But guess for which application the users demand it. People who have no problem playing a proprietary computer games also don't hesitate to install a proprietary driver. > Are there any legal hurdles to writing drivers or is it just time? Reverse engineering requires a lot of time. That's for sure. And as you can see in the DeCSS case they even try to prohibit it. -- Regards, Max Moritz Sievers _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
