[LUNI] Want drivers?

[Ian Koenig]

Any deal with the devil results in you being corrupted.  

Mike Scott wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: [LUNI] Want drivers?
>> From: Craig Van Tassle <craig at codestorm.org>
>> Date: Fri, October 26, 2007 12:58 pm
>> To: luni at luni.org
>>
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>> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:49:25 -0700
>> Mike Scott <luni at pyewacket.org> wrote:
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>>> Well, since Novell and Microsoft are now BFF (Best Friends Forever),
>>> why don't they just work with companies to port their drivers?
>>>
>>> - Mike Scott
>>>
>>>       
>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> Subject: [LUNI] Want drivers?
>>>> From: Seva Epsteyn <seva at sevatech.com>
>>>> Date: Fri, October 26, 2007 11:15 am
>>>> To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois <luni at luni.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6669895837.html
>>>>
>>>> Desktop Linux needs drivers. Right? Of course. So why is Novell's
>>>> Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer and head of the Linux
>>>> Driver Project, having to ask people to tell him about devices that
>>>> need drivers?
>>>>         
>> Simple M$ wont let any of the drivers made for doze to be ported. Very
>> much like the NDA strangle hold they have with companies like Dell and
>> HP
>>     
>
> <sarcasm>
> Bu-bu-but, I thought Microsoft was working to promote and help Linux?
> They wouldn't enter into a deal strictly to benefit themselves and
> destroy the other guy!
> Show me one instance of that happening in the past!
> </sarcasm>
>
> - Mike Scott
>
>