Ubuntu is not free.

[Ouattara Aziz]

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> That is so completely wrong I don't know where to start. In an ideal
> world everyone would see the benefit of FLOSS and work in that
> direction. The real world is different. In this world, what happens is
> that a hardware manufacturer has decided that getting the customer to
> bend over for a shafting is AGoodThing(tm), and this behaviour is
> reinforced by the customer gladly bending over. When we willingly
> include proprietary stuff in our OS for normal everyday commodity
> things, this is exactly what we are doing[1].
> 
> In all of history, there is only one thing that has ever reliably made
> companies open up their standards and technologies, and that is when
> customers demand they do so or they will take their business elsewhere.
> 
> Trust me, there is no middle ground on this. Only when a significant
> percentage of customers demand open standards from their suppliers will
> those suppliers provide them. They do it under duress and no other way.
> Or are you suffering from the delusion that they will do it based on
> it's own merits and because it's a good idea?

So what you're saying is that we let normal users coming from windows 
suffer from the lack of their hardware support so that they will go yell 
on manufacturers to release their specs/code ?

I think only a few of them will do that. They'll go back to windows and 
(if we (Linux Community ) are lucky ) they'll wait for a new release of 
a distribution that support their hardware.

If you want them to wake it the way your suggesting, you should have a 
way to make it easy for them to go complain.
(eg. On the distribution website -Ubuntu- have a form they can fill for 
getting their hardware supported. That form should be related to a 
database that associate hardware ID with the manufacturer email. So that 
an email (sender <the complaining person> )will be send to  the 
manufacturer asking for them to provide Linux support. That will make 
the manufacturer reply to the complainant and they'll keep in touch 
concerning the problem. )

	

	
		
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