Ubuntu is not free.

[Ouattara Aziz]

Derek Broughton a écrit :
> email.listen at googlemail.com wrote:
> 
>> Hardware companies often say they don't see a need for offering hardware
>> supporting Linux because of the few customers they see in this field.
>>
>> For me this looks like a lame excuse.
> 
> It's not only a lame excuse (I remember almost the same argument from a
> Microsoft exec when Mozilla introduced tabbed browsing - he said they had
> no plans to do it in IE as their customers hadn't asked for such a feature. 
> I _still_ haven't managed to find a way to ask for an IE feature!).  It's
> also shortsighted.  If hardware companies provided clear and open APIs for
> their hardware (with open or closed firmware), _any_ provider could create
> drivers for the hardware.  This could only improve upon the drivers the
> hardware maker created for it's OS of choice.  In reality, they'd _never_
> need to provide drivers for Linux, because Linux users would create them.

I agree !