On Friday, 29. October 2004 21:44, Sam Leffler wrote: > > "Activism pays off for OpenBSD" > > http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html > > And this form of activism also turns off lots of vendors. That would mean there's anybody to actually turn off. Like you say yourself: > The open > source market is virtually non-existent to vendors so you will never get > anyone to do anything by arguing they should make a change because it > will increase their sales. All the vendors Theo&co are going after are > bit players with inferior products that are in trouble in one way or > another. ... and are widespread as built-in devices in today's cheap massmarket hardware. And OSS operating systems need cheap massmarket hardware to run on. > The proper way to make things happen is to find a vendor that > is basing a product on an OSS and use their influence to make things > happen. So you're saying OpenBSD should find themselves a Yahoo, Inc and use them to pressure vendors and that's the decent way then? Ridiculous. I myself returned the pair of el-cheapo TI-1131 wireless nics I initially bought and got Atheros-based hardware instead, but many laptop users with built-in hardware who don't want to run Windows do not have that choice. If Theo tries to pave a way for them, it's a good thing. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi_at_freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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