[geeks] The Dog's Breakfast: Microsoft Windows Vista

[Joshua Boyd]

On May 7, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> On Mon, 7 May 2007, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>
>> Of course, if vendors do the proper thing with the device drivers  
>> they
>> author, then most of the work of supporting all distributions is done
>> for them.  All they have to do is make the driver free to be included
>> in the kernel source tree.
>
> I would argue that "the right thing" is to document the device fully-
> enough that the vendors don't -have- to support every platform on the
> planet.  Then the vendors can pick and choose, the enthusiasts can  
> pick
> up the rest, and the vendor sells more hardware overall.

Your right, as usual.