Hi Andre, On 1/18/07, Andre John Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I do hope that us, the open source community, would stand up and take notice of these complaints.
I don't want to sound callous, but hand-waving doesn't really help. Yes, the developers of the different FOSS applications need all the help they can get -- let's just go ahead and help them instead of grabbing a soap box and talking to the community. Preaching to the choir never seems to be effective.
But then, why do these things *just work* in Windows land, but not in Linux land?
Well, let's see why: 1) The hardware was designed to work with Windows based computers 2) The hardware was designed to work with Windows based computers and... 3) The hardware was designed to work with Windows based computers
Hardware support is of course a hairy issue -- the open source community needs the full cooperation of hardware manufacturers to be able to pull things off.
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