Ubuntu is not free.

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> On 12/07/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> Well said.  I have to admit, I've often told people complaining about
>> lack of hardware support that "you wouldn't go out and buy hardware for a
>> Windows machine that wasn't supported in Windows, and you shouldn't go
>> out
>> and buy hardware for a Linux machine that isn't supported."  You've made
>> me
>> realize I'm not quite going about this the right way.  Next time I'm
>> shopping for something, I'll make my shortlist based solely on features,
>> buy the best one that _is_ supported in Linux - and write to all the
>> other manufacturers to tell them why they didn't get a sale.
> 
> I'll get on that bandwagon. When they figure out that the cost of
> developing drivers will be less than the profits they will make by
> selling hardware, then they will release drivers.

They don't even need to invest the time & money to produce the drivers if
they provide a decently documented API - then the linux base will gladly
provide the drivers if they want/need the hardware.
-- 
derek