Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:35:20 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Subject: Re: ACX100 Firmware Licensing Message-ID: <200410300135.24727.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <41829D84.5000903@errno.com> References: <20041027161650.GA39008@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <clt9ij$pd$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <41829D84.5000903@errno.com>
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--nextPart12959465.4qQ5QJ4CYG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 29. October 2004 21:44, Sam Leffler wrote: > > "Activism pays off for OpenBSD" > > http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html > > And this form of activism also turns off lots of vendors. That would mean there's anybody to actually turn off. Like you say yourself: > The open=20 > source market is virtually non-existent to vendors so you will never get > anyone to do anything by arguing they should make a change because it > will increase their sales. All the vendors Theo&co are going after are > bit players with inferior products that are in trouble in one way or > another. =2E.. and are widespread as built-in devices in today's cheap massmarket=20 hardware. And OSS operating systems need cheap massmarket hardware to run o= n. > The proper way to make things happen is to find a vendor that=20 > is basing a product on an OSS and use their influence to make things > happen. So you're saying OpenBSD should find themselves a Yahoo, Inc and use them t= o=20 pressure vendors and that's the decent way then? Ridiculous. I myself returned the pair of el-cheapo TI-1131 wireless nics I initially=20 bought and got Atheros-based hardware instead, but many laptop users with=20 built-in hardware who don't want to run Windows do not have that choice. If= =20 Theo tries to pave a way for them, it's a good thing. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart12959465.4qQ5QJ4CYG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBgtO8Xhc68WspdLARAlHsAJ9oa5sraxHMPe3HuWamNhIdTMmwMwCffOn+ IMUI+UT31gqK5mN7T0uYsZ0= =QJ3l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart12959465.4qQ5QJ4CYG--
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