Linux Hardware Petition - Please Join!

[activedaemon]

I have decided to make a petition to demand hardware vendors Linux drivers for their products.

please join in and help!

http://www.petitiononline.com/lhdp2006/petition.html

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD...

[bryansmith]

Please don't post the message multiple times.

I'll take a look at the petition for ya .

Bryan

[kbk]

I'll post this on my site, as well as give it to a few friends.

[Vergil83]

no offense, but do we need another one of these things.
http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/
http://www.petitiononline.com/BCM4301/
http://www.petitiononline.com/nforce2/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/linuxati/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/nvppclin/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/YALB1975/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/linparh/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/xf123456/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/hwopennv/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/linux260/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/ati3/petition.html

and on and on and on....

Although the fact it demands the drivers (because it is our right) it doesn't particularly seem to care about the source! FOSS is about access to the source.

Of course, the silliest thing is

If it is ignored we won't be able to use your products, and there shall be forced to stop purchasing any of them until such support is provided.

I will believe it when I see it because this has to be the billionth time I have heard this. For example, as long as people are willing to keep booting into windows to play games (which there are also petitions about), they will require those fancy video cards.

[CodeRoot]

I will believe it when I see it because this has to be the billionth time I have heard this. For example, as long as people are willing to keep booting into windows to play games (which there are also petitions about), they will require those fancy video cards.

Absolutely! You can talk about it indefinitely -- but what is required is action - action speaks louder than words - how many people are willing to back up their words with action?

Spreading the word is good, but if it is not followed by and backed up with action - it is of no real value...

[Trio3b]

One of the best ways to spread GNU/linux knowledge is via internet. Majority of people all over the world still use dialup. Dialup is getting better but still a pain for linux users......so........
WHY is the linux community waiting for anyone to release drivers for existing modems?

I have written to developers of all the major distros to band together, then go to some company in China , Korea, US, wherever and CONTRACT someone to build 100,00 linux compatible modems which can be built for $2 or $3 apiece or buy overstock lots of modems with chipset known to be linux compatible......THEN:

write some drivers for those modems

incorporate those drivers into the kernel

THEN GIVE THE DAMN modems away on forums and thru linux friendly retailers.

Then work up another batch of 150,000 and give those away

Then work up another batch of 250,000 and sell at cost

your'e never going to get a FOR PROFIT company to release its drivers, but you MIGHT get a sypathetic entrepeneur or a group of linux distro developers to do it IN HOUSE.

Yes, I know about lucent/agere and the Intel 536ep drivers, and yes I know about external serial port modems, but I'm talking about modems on a MASS scale to help spread linux.

OK, done with the rant...I feel better now.