[opensuse] vote on Lenovo

Steve Lamb grey at dmiyu.org
Sun Sep 16 13:05:07 UTC 2007


Wulfy wrote:
>  As far as I can see, the only way this would 
> hurt them is if there were a video card with open source, accelerated 
> driver available, which we could purchase *instead* of their hardware.  
> I don't know of any such hardware.

     You're also thinking too narrowly.  These are laptops we're talking 
about.  Video is not the only proprietary piece if equipment in a laptop. 
Sound, pointing device, networking device, all of them are often proprietary 
to fit the demanding form factor.




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