Hi guys, Thanks for your responses.
Nicolas thanks for sharing your experiences with this. I actually do find it encouraging that you got the responses you did from NEC/Mitubishi and Fujitsu/Siemens. I'm not too surprised that a hardware manufacturer that isn't predominantly computer oriented like Samsung (I think) is not very responsive. In my note to apple (which I'm still deciding whether to snail mail or post) I don't explicitly ask them to develop SMC drivers but I do ask them for the specs and I point out that they support windows (to some degree) on their machines whereas it would be easier for them to support Linux (since so much of the work is already essentially done by the community). I also ask them to bug ATI and perhaps to have some of their developers participate in these lists. I agree that a few complaint letters probably will not move mountains but I think if enough of us try we can get some notice. It seems that in general companies have felt free to ignore Linux users but I hope things are starting to change. The number one request to Dell on its ideastorm is adding Linux support, Lenevo promises a Linux compatible laptop, Novell and Redhat are pushing Linux in the enterprise and Linux has gotten to the point where a lot of hardware is plug and play. Ubuntu and similar distributions have made Linux readily available in a hassle-free way to a semi-technical person. I'm not saying that we'll have linux on every desktop but I think in the next year or two there's a chance that linux might stop be seen as a marginal OS and companies might start supporting it better. So this is a good era to start pestering companies, particularly if we do it en mass. In any case it doesn't hurt to do it and I think most companies will respond if they start getting large number of customer complaints that they can (in principle) easily resolve. Apple might be an exception because its ideologically xenophobic but we should still give it a shot. cheers, Sheer On 3/22/07, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Also, another large issue with the MB and MBP is SMC support in linux. > >> I'm not sure if this is for want of specifications or for want of > >> someone to just implement a good driver. If its the former then we > >> should also ask apple to release these or perhaps even help develop a > >> driver. > > > Forget about them developing a driver, I think it's asking WAY to much > > Of course it's not asking "WAY too much". > Don't forget: we know they won't do it anyway, so asking is really not doing > much more than signalling that we're not happy ab out the current situation. > > If you send such things expecting a reaction, you're in for > a big disappointment. Most companies have a vested interest in making you > feel like asking for such things is a waste of your time. But if we pester > them enough, some of the messages will slowly make their way somewhere. > > In the mean time: boycott nVidia and ATI. > > > Stefan "who just bough a T60 laptop with an ATI card and regrets it" > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
