Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:25:05 +0100 From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook Message-ID: <4CAB2731.9090502@exonetric.com> In-Reply-To: <4CAB25B1.6050906@radel.com> References: <BLU0-SMTP206334E008974E47D19DF37936D0@phx.gbl> <4CAB25B1.6050906@radel.com>
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Jon Radel wrote: > I'm somewhat unclear on how that follows. Might it not be that many > manufacturers, busily dealing with Microsoft, and easing into Linux now > that it has significant "mindshare," have simply decided that there's no > economic benefit to releasing detailed hardware specs in a form that > works for FreeBSD developers? I really fail to see why you think the > fact that the manufacturer itself has released binary drivers for > Windows, and possibly Linux, and/or released hardware specs under NDA > (non-disclosure agreement) to certain business partners, has any bearing > on whether sufficient information to write a driver is available to any > FreeBSD programmer with permission to use it to write an open source > driver. There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that arena is entirely coincidental.
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