On Sunday 25 September 2005 18:25, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: [snip] > So is Compaq evil because even though they shipped a Fully Functioning > Linux Distribution they had no drivers included for the Modem, Multimedia > Keys, WiFi Card et cetera ?
Are they evil? Probably not. Should prospective buyers be warned that they are getting a crap deal and not really what is advertised? Yes, repeatedly and with great gusto. This is why consumer fora were invented. I've heard people within Compaq complaining about this, so it's not like you're the first person to bring it up. DEC and later Compaq (and now HP, or whatever is left of their respective carcasses) have had a vague, high-level commitment to Linux for many years, probably since the mid-nineties. Unfortunately their bureaucracies being what they are, they rarely translated into concrete retail products, mostly fancy web pages filled with rhetoric and some support info for Linux on their servers. But you know FWIW, guys like Jim Gettys still work there! -Taj. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Event: Freedel 2005, 17th & 18th September, 2005 - http://freedel.in
