[Trimmed, I hope I got the authors right...]
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 01:41 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote:
I understand your position, but let me give my example. I have this
laptop that is one year old. I'm helping in all what I can to the
development of ath5k --- IOW, offering testing, I am not an expert on
this.
But the mere fact that ndiswrapper exists enabled me to use this laptop
on a daily basis, and so I could test new kernel (and if you look at the
logs you'll see I had at least helped to fix a nasty MMC bug, and to
make sound work in this laptop) and help in other areas, like
suspend/resume testing and bug chasing.
There is not only wireless development. Without ndiswrapper, I wouldn't
have been in any position to help other areas. I would have had a
crippled laptop[1], a much higher Vista uptime (which now is 0), and a
far bitter Linux experience.
And this is the point of view of someone that is using Linux since
0.99pl9, so I have quite a bit of experience. 99% of normal users would
simply say "don't work"[2].
Romano
[1] yes, there's a madwifi version locked to a specific kernel that
works with my card. But I do not think that this would be so much
different.
[2] a nice page with "_this_ laptop will fully work with linux" would be
nice. Linux on laptop or similar is too complex to be a real help when
you have to buy a laptop in 2 days.
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