> etc. ). I think, if there is enough for demand for linux/X-windows > compatability , the hardware manufacturers will provide it (note that almost
> So my decission, not to buy, in future, any comomputer components unless > Linux/X-windows support is available. The question is not whether the manufacturer is willing to develop their own drivers for a particular OS, but rather whether they are willing to release programming information for their hardware without the recipient forced to sign a NDA (Non disclosure agreement). I suggest that you change your decision as NOT to buy products for which technical documentation that is required to materialise the advertised capabilities of the product/component is not made avaialble so programmers can write necessary low level code for them. Prominent among these "Clandestine" companies is SiS. Their policy goes even as far as the VGA department is keeping information secret from other employees. Most of the SiS code in the Kernel and XFree86 are just pure guesses as admitted by the programmers themselves. Unni.
