A lot of people have slammed Ed's perspective. I think we should separate
distaste for the hardware from our dismay that the manufacturers do not
support Linux. The hardware may make sense in some contexts where the
modem is rarely used.
And even if we think the hardware sucks, it remains somewhat of an
Achilles' heel for "desktop Linux" that most people's modems don't work
with Linux.
The real villain here is the manufacturers who refuse to support Linux at all.
-Alan Mead
At 02:47 PM 7/8/00 , you wrote:
>The same logic of why a winmodem might be appropriate
>for an OEM system also applies to linux - most of us running
>systems in the hundreds of MHz _do_ have some spare cycles.
>
>So why not take advantage of a cheaper modem? Hell, most of
>us DONT have true PS printers - does using GS and printfilters
>to make a "software PS printer" make is bad?
>
>And, what's wrong with a binary-only driver?
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