Timothy Miller wrote:
On 7/10/06, Peter TB Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This would be fantastic for Linux or BSD users, because just by looking
at a box they'd be able to tell that a product will be likely to have
reasonable support under their operating system.
We could tier this.
***** means the hardware is open source
**** means the hardware is fully-documented
*** means there is a solid and complete open source driver
** means there's a basic open source driver
* just wouldn't get used. :)
Actually, I'd rather not go into that much detail[1]: just because the
hardware is open source, doesn't mean there's more than a basic Linux
driver for it. Equally, there might be full documentation and a really
awesome OpenBSD driver, but no support in Linux, Windows or MacOS X at
all because no-one's got around to porting it yet. KISS.
I'd rather have the certification logo just basically mean, "With this
product, the manufacturer is playing nice as far as working with the OSS
community is concerned." It would be done on a product-by-product
basis, so manufacturers can choose *not* to free up docs for some
products, if they wish to. Then as and when free drivers are written,
we can encourage manufacturers to add notes about them to their
packaging/website.
So this way, the logo means something clear and uncomplicated, which not
only makes it more useful to Joe Public, but also makes it simpler to
enforce the terms of the certification (trademark license).
Peter
[1] Packaging tends to be expensive to change: websites less so.
There's nothing stopping the OHF document repository from also recording
the state of drivers for that particular hardware.
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