On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:31:08PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 22:19 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Or, *freedoms*. If a hardware vendor wants to profit from Linux users, > > they need to lift the limitations on the access to knowledge about their > > wares. > > Please wake up. :-) Why? Living in a dream world with you seems far more entertaining. > This will never happen. Nobody sane who spent 50$ millon dollars VC's > capital will open their IP for free. This is fact of life. Bwa. Ha. Ha. > Major shift of Linux users to OpenSolaris-based distributions might > happen pretty soon. Do you have *any* rational basis for making this statement? Even *sun* can't give a compelling reason for a sudden, massive stampede of existing (and new) Linux users to suddenly up-and-switch OS. I can see benefits in the large-system market, but how many people have a 32-way box? I doubt that Solaris supports as much varied hardware as Linux does, despite your claims of vendor support -- what percentage of the drivers for commodity x86 hardware in OpenSolaris were written by vendors? Does OpenSolaris cleanly install onto my laptop and support all of the hardware in it? > The question is: whether Debian community wants to be on train or not > and at which point? I think buffet car of your train may be serving kool-aid. - Matt
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