On 20/03/2009 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > That's a reasonable complaint, but not an easy one to address. OEMs > don't want to give their hardware competitors any ideas prematurely
Come on! That's the opposite of the spirite of free software - or at least of open source. Closed-source companies too, do not want to give their competitors any ideas, be it prematurely or not, that's how they laugh in your face when you propose them open strategies. If they publish their results, chances are that some expert will be able to referee their work and eventually publish a critic comment; and maybe that would outline some mistake in the studies and then convince everybody that a certain design is not such a good idea as it seemed from the OEM study. That's quite in the spirit of open-* and we should try to stick to this attitude rather than justifying what will be wrong for the entire community. This is not meant to accuse you or canonical in any way; perhaps I just want to point out the obvious: how it looks like on our free-software-enthusiasts side. Vincenzo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
