On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:58:38AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 26, Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > > > And more and more users will just ignore the official kernel package, > > > because it will not support modern hardware. > > Yeah, just like more and more people will ignore Debian because it > > will not support modern win32 programs. > We have built an OS which can replace win32 programs. > We cannot do the same thing for hardware. We can, actually. There's a few groups doing things along those lines. But that's besides the point. There is no shortage of "modern" hardware without these problems. I don't own any hardware with these problems. It's not like users don't have a choice in the matter. Your argument is equivalent to "I bought a winmodem so Debian should ship Windows". -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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