[LUNI] Want drivers?

[Mike Scott]

> -------- Original Message --------
> 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