On Tuesday 21 February 2006 8:01 am, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: > This is really bad. It gives too much fuel to MS to spread more fud. I > have been watching the discussion of the FACTORY list. The biggest > problem I see with Linux is drivers and getting support for them from > commecial enterprises. I am afraid that this aids manufactures of devices > to choose not to support Linux. Look at ATI and nVidia, .... We have a > hard time getting people to provide drivers for Linux as it is now. This > has aided some driver manufactorers to say why support Linux. I had this > happen this week. A client that has been on SUSE Linux since 9.0 and was > considering upgrading to SLES and newer version of Linux had the hardware > people tell him they would not be supporting Linux in the future. He > called all worked up about my convincing him to go with Linux and now he > is not going to be able to use it because of this issue. He is now > looking for a MS consultant and going to be moving from Linux. This was > really bad timing for me.
It's bad timing for everyone, and is pure STUPIDITY!! Those knuckleheads who work on the kernel had better get a reality check and get it QUICKLY!! Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
