Hardware Advocacy or Making it easy to do the right thing.

[Michael T. Richter]

On Sun, 2007-25-02 at 12:20 +0000, john levin wrote:

> There are an increasing number of small, local shops selling computers 
> with linux - often Ubuntu - pre-installed. See the linux vendor database:
> http://lxer.com/module/db/index.php?dbn=14


I've found that a lot of these places don't bother with any system
integration issues.  They just sell a box with a Linux distro that kinda
works.  Dig under the covers and you'll find half the hardware ill- or
un-supported.


> Yeah, the amount of research I have to do, just to make sure I'm buying 
> something that works with linux drives me nuts. A lot of this is the 
> fault of the vendors, who change components in devices without making it 
> known.


I blame, as with almost all the fiascos in computing, the consumer.

We put up with this shit.  No company does the right thing because it's
the right thing.  They do the right thing because they've been forced at
gunpoint (symbolically) to do it.

-- 
Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com>
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