-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Valsa Williams wrote: > Besides just the free software, awareness campaigns should be loud and > pervasive. I just got a new laptop with Ubuntu 7.10. ISPs like Tata Indicom > & Reliance still do not support Linux openly. Their sales guys do not even > know what Linux is. I know my problem of connecting can be fixed by my LUG > friends but success will be when support is widely available from these > vendors. Similarly websites that only open with IE !
Awareness without commitment from vendors in terms of putting engineering resources to sustain the drivers is not going to take desktop penetration to any amount of "next" level. (read: I am still yet to know what this particular next level is) ISPs like Reliance and Tata Indicom source their PCMCIA cards from ODMs - - so who gets to latch on to ODMs and get them to engineer, maintain and support the drivers for their cards with super funky PCI IDs ? As regards websites ... ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHZ6feXQZpNTcrCzMRAsllAJ9KU6R7YaeOJiBuFjmWnHPbi1ifUQCePwZm tgPeoQLWzBFdOHeTX4UPz6g= =U0aj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
