Matthew Gardiner wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Coopersmith"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Alan DuBoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.
>
>
>> Matthew Gardiner wrote:
>>> x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to
>>> improve the user experience in either hardware support or software
>>> availability.
>>
>> You think nvidia video drivers, wifi drivers, Macromedia Flash, and all
>> the other drivers & software appeared on their own for x86 with no effort
>> by Sun? If so, you're very mistaken.
>
> When am I going to see support for my USB webcam? infact, a large number
> of products in my laptop made by Ricoh, who are more than happy to
> provide specifications to those who want them?
>
> Or will it be the typical defence of Solaris engineers - "its designed
> for servers, who needs webcams" blah blah blah blah?
I haven't heard anyone say it's only for servers in a very long time.
I'm sorry you have devices not yet supported, but just because we haven't
hit every possible device in the world doesn't mean Sun has done nothing
at all - it's just prioritized along different priorities than yours.
But the whole point of OpenSolaris is to allow anyone to set their own
priorities for developing code and not be stuck waiting for Sun to do
things in the order set by Sun's priorities.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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