Linked by Adam S on Sun 6th Apr 2003 17:18 UTC
This is my reaction to Tsu Dho Nimh's "Migrating to Linux not easy for Windows users" featured on Linuxworld.com recently. It's not a response, I'm not challenging his opinions, which I feel are not only valid, but mostly right, it's just a reaction.
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>Why should they provide open source drivers? why shouldnt >linux provide a standart way to use binary drivers,
There are standard ways of dealing with drivers. It's called providing RPMS for people to use for there distro. It's up to the OEM to provide those drivers but in most cases they would rather you do the hard work. This is true with Nvidia. At first their drivers were open source and later on they pulled the rug and closed them. When they were open source you got many more driver updates and bug fixes. Now it takes longer for newer drivers to come out and usually there is some bug that has go un-noticed by the Nvidia boys.
>instead of making it intentionally difficult because of >political reasons (proprietary is bad and all that blah blah >blah),
Well maybe it's because people don't like getting sued or having their work stolen from underneath them.
>if it works with windows and osx why can't it work on linux.
Go call up the OEM's and ask them why.