Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Nov 2008 15:47 UTC, submitted by umccullough
GNU, GPL, Open Source 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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RE[4]: This is badly needed
by 0brad0 on Thu 6th Nov 2008 00:11 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: This is badly needed"
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Wow. This guy sure is an amazing troll. It astounds me that someone can be so ignorant.

Edited 2008-11-06 00:17 UTC

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