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  Re: Linux really costs a _lot_ more than $40  
From: nemesis
Date: 23 Oct 2008 16:15:04
Message: <4900db48$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson escreveu:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:27:26 -0200, nemesis wrote:
> 
>> Linux doesn't work poorly, its developers simply don't have the
>> resources to support all hardware by themselves.
> 
> It's not always a question of resources, but also a question of publicly 
> available specs for the hardware so drivers can be written.  Some 
> hardware manufacturers don't want their hardware supported by OSS 
> platforms, so they explicitly require an NDA to get access to programming 
> information about the hardware.

Hmm, playing dirty, huh?  Is it just the case of the 3D video cards or 
also other kinds of hardware?...


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