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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2008-02-26
Hypocrites appears:
PUFFY, you must obey my new laws!
Whatever open spec there is in the world isn't thanks to Linux and its NDAs and binary blobs. If all specs were open, no OS would be left behind. Now Linux has joined the club of supported OSes by renouncing to its users' freedom to do whatever they want with the hardware they purchased. There is absolutely no reason not to release a pdf with your internal interface specs. Nobody is asking them to write MikeOS drivers. Nobody can build a competitor to nVidia by knowing how to control the card. Basically because they don't even have the required technology. Everything the vendors say is utter bullshit.