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Re: Driver injection disk debconf templates in D-I



On Saturday 29 May 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > > I replaced "OEM" by "hardware" in an attempt to unjargonize.
> >
> > And thereby losing information.
>
> Well, then define OEM in this context....This acronym is used  in each
> and every possible situation and nearly means nothing nowadays. So ? I
> dont' think we lose any information by being more explicit.

I fully agree that OEM is a nonsense term and confusing to users.

Maybe use "hardware vendor" instead of OEM. Using just "hardware" does lose 
information as the essence is that the drivers are provided by the vendor, 
not by the distro.


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