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Subject: Re: Common interface for sensors/health monitoring
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> [090822 10:44] wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:04:10 -0700 Julian Elischer
>> <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The purists won out in that one by shouting loudly and screaming
>>> about socialized healthware. Consequently we have 47 million
>>> unsupported devices.
>> You forgot to tell that now nobody wants to touch this subject anymore,
>> as he may be the target of similar shouting then.
> 
> I say good riddence, if someone wants thier hardware not to melt
> then each machine should be personally responsible and enroll in
> a private monitoring service we don't need project sponsored health
> monitoring.
> 
> (ron paul!)
> 

I think that this kind of talk calls for boycotting certain device drivers!