On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Stephan M. February < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Thng wrote: > >> Ya, Linux can be "dumber" cos of the customised interface, or can be >> Advanced. >> >> And by the way, I hope they never forget the "roots" of Asus Eee ... >> http://eeepc.asus.com/global/news101712007.htm >> >> They use Linux word on general grounds ... Good points and bad points. >> Because of the great difference in UI, they should name their distro as >> Asus >> OS and promote as Asus OS instead of Linux ... >> >> And why they specifically bold the words, Windows Live Mail in >> http://eeepc.asus.com/global/news04152008.htm >> >> > > I would like to just jump in here and say that we should generally ease up > on bashing Asus in this regard. Remember that Linux advocacy should try to > be Pro-Linux and not Anti-MS. > > It is noteworthy that Asus has kicked off a computing revolution with the > Eee and the help of Linux. The fact that Linux was instrumental in this was > not lost on the other comers to the market like e.g HP, who sold out their > Linux versions of 2133 in the US - and currently has it on backorder (this > reported on the latest Linux Action Show Podcast). > > Asus has been an amazingly Linux-friendly company. This is especially brave > in a hardware market where the mainstream kowtow's to Redmond. > I'm not so sure about that. I think Asus is more of "an accidental helper", than an actual friend (ie. they use linux because... well they have their commercial reasons ;)) If they really cared so much about opensource (or specifically Linux), they would not have bowed down to whoever wrote up that marketing copy. That's number 1. Number 2 is them using a wireless chip for which there is no open documentation. Sure, we have the drivers - but what we have for that is primarily as a result of hard work reverse engineering. Bad. > Let us not now snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by bashing a valuable > ally :). > > Disclaimer: I have no afiliation with Asus whatsoever. The above opinions > are my own, and obviously do not reflect official Asus policy. > > Cheers > Stephan > > -jf -- In the meantime, here is your PSA: "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help." -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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