Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Nov 2008 15:47 UTC, submitted by umccullough
It seems that Haiku hacker Francois Revol (mmu_man) posted a few messages to a thread in MSI's forums asking to provide hardware with open specifications and/or (non-GPL) FOSS drivers such that alternative operating systems like Haiku and others could benefit and be supported as well. His messages were seemingly squelched by a forum moderator as "rubbish" while other, pro-Linux, postings seem to have remain untouched. Francois decided to respond with a public blog rant of his own opinions regarding the state of open source driver support and vendors' responsibility to their customers.
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2005-07-06
Your right there is Apple too (BSD).
Contrary to popular belief the majority of hardware as Open Specs. What you don't get is "apparently" free manufacturer driver support for all OS'es. By "apparently" it is implied that GNU/Linux , Windows and Apple pay for the hardware support by there sale order's in magnitude that *register* with the hardware vendors.
Beside it's because they are *Open* that most fringe and niche OS are not covered , if the spec had been Free , then anyone would be able to work on it.
Edited 2008-11-05 20:06 UTC