2012/2/6 Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor <[email protected]>: > Yes you're talking about Binary Blob. This is somewhat necessary to ensure > the out-of-the-box experience the users seek. They care less about free and > open source which doesn't get any real work done (most of the typical users > have athreos wlan on their laptop whose driver is not open source).
I can understand the frustration of these binary blobs for usual/cheap desktop/laptop users. But please do not be so harsh about it. It's not the Linux' fault that some hardware company do not play nicely with other OSes than Windows. Linux devs try hard to make it all happen but without the help of the actual vendor it is a difficult task. I know users do not care (or even know) about other OSes than Windows that can be run on their device. They just buy one which runs Windows out-of-the-box. Sadly, it is also true sometimes when users need to re-install/rescue a Windows machine, they have to go through the painful hunting process of preferred driver for their hardware. -- M. Nasimul Haque Appliansys, Coventry, UK http://www.nasim.me.uk -- Ubuntu Bangladesh https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
