I suppose a BSD license is completely out of the question? Oh well,
could you perhaps get her to change it to LGPL, so that I can sell my
derived peanut butter banana bread, without having to reveal the
recipe.

/Casper

On 13 Jul., 00:49, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]>
wrote:
> And don't forget, with Linux, if my mother buys a lexmark printer and
> it doesn't work she can just 'write here own driver'. :)
>
> She GPLed her banana bread recipe, so this shouldn't be too difficult
> for her.
>
> (ps.  im not bagging linux, im just being silly)
>
> On Jul 12, 9:42 pm, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Because Mac OS X fully supports the hardware it is sold for.
>
> > It's not expected to support more.  It's part of the Mac-way.
>
> > One of Linux x86's promises has always been to support the broad range
> > of x86 hardware.  People expect to grab any old x86 system and for Linux
> > to work.  Same goes for Windows.  No one -- least of all Applet --
> > expects this for Mac OS X.  Apple only wants Mac OS X used on their
> > hardware.
>
> > Weiqi Gao wrote:
> > > [I'm 15 minutes into #266 and I have to pause the podcast and shoot this
> > > email out.  (If I don't and wait till the end, I would forget all about
> > > it.)]
>
> > > Why is it that when it comes to the question of Linux's hardware
> > > support, people always bring Windows out for comparison?  While in every
> > > other occasion, people beat Linux with Mac OS X?
>
> > > Surely Linux supports more hardwares than Mac OS X, doesn't it?
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