I hope that nothing I ever say holds back our developers or community
from doing what is right. I did not realize that the GNU and Linux
kernel hackers were such dutiful slaves.
I -- and many of our team -- don't give a rats as about the GNU principles
either, and look how much more we have done.
This other thing is actually the ONLY problem. It is just business as
usual for the Linux wanna-be-monopoly. It is that those people work
at companies that sign NDAs to get them documentation, and then noone
else gets the documentation. Yes, they are already people of a
"higher class", and then why would they spend even a second of their
time making the docs more free. They feel so special and empowered to
be in the inner clique; so they don't fight a fucked up system.
If you see a fucked up system, do you want to fight it? Or do you
want to defend the people who don't fight it? I think you are an
apologist for those who don't fight the system.
No. Open documentation has NOT gone a long way at all. Do you have
full Broadcom 100mb / gigabit ethernet documentation? Do you have
Intel 100mb / gigabit ethernet chipset programming documentation? Do
you have documentation for ANY wireless chipsets except the two or
three that we pressured to be free? If you don't have documentation
for those, what do you have? What is a long way for you? Perhaps a
100 year plan?
He cried, and nothing happened. He cried, and then did no reverse
engineering. He cried, and the only people who listened and agreed
are those who do nothing.
You all think this is all about 2 kinds of video cards. Video cards,
video cards, video cards, video cards, video cards, video cards, video
cards, video cards... cry cry cry. what about all the rest of the
things in a machine?
Personally I believe that all the other free operating systems added
together have worked MUCH LESS on this than we have.
Where do you come up with this load of crap? The eeepc has an
UNDOCUMENTED ethernet chip and an UNDOCUMENTED wireless chip. Of
course it works in Linux, because the ethernet vendor gave an
undocumented source code driver to the Linux vendors, and the wireless
vendor gave an undocumented BINARY driver to the Linux vendors, and oh
boy, that makes it all so good, and such a GREAT example. No other PC
laptop selling today has more undocumented parts than this laptop.
Your example is so pathetic; it shows you have not a clue. You are an
utter idiot. The eeepc is an exact manifistation of the problem
coming round again. One year ago we had complete support of every
major component in every laptop, and then voila, this Linux-based
laptop came out which required a LINUX BLOB. You are a clueless
fanboy.
What a load of crap. You don't know what you are talking about.
Everything else you said is exactly the same blathering; you are
trying to say happy Linux things but there are no facts to support
that the Linux crew or FSF has done ANYTHING which has gotten
documentation for hardware out there. They have failed to use their
dominant position to anyone else, and they have done a damn poor job
of even supporting themselves.
Any documentation which is out there is because we pushed it out, or
some specific person or company decided to. The FSF and Linux never
had anything to do with any document release -- at best they have done
damned little considering the clout they could have. If they have,
please provide exact facts, and for more than 1-2 chips, which have
their full documentation available. The facts stand against you.
Watch out, because some chips you think may be out there because of
Linux, I had been talking to the same people at the same time.
Good lord. You think you can make shit up and it makes it true. Your
perceptions are utterly wrong. Collectively the Linux developers have
done DICK to pressure vendor documentation releases.
What did they do? Linux developers and the companies that employ
them have spend the last ten years signing NDAs with vendors, and
therefore only that very small group of people have the documentation.
It's not even "lots of Linux developers" who have those docs; no, in
each case it is typically 1-3 developers who have docs for a particular
chipset, and then when a bug is found by an outsider he has to work without
docs.
That helps noone except them -- it does not help the other
communities. Even when it helps them to have these docs, it helps
them poorly, since at an optimistic level only 1% of their development
community have a particular doc they might want to read.
The Linux developers are selfish dickheads who have exactly the same
monopolistic mindset as Microsoft -- who also signs NDAs with vendors.
I see nothing different about their processes. They want an
advantage. And having vendors documents is an advantage. But it IS
small minded of them to only want that advantage for only 1% of their
own development community.
Your words are not a whitewash; you are either lying or you have spent
a lot of time trying to write a treatise after having spent zero time
studying what is actually happening.
He is not practical. He is a monopolist, and the current situation is
that Linux is strong enough that they get documentation from most
vendors, under NDAs. That makes them like the other super power who
they love to hate, and keeps all the other people trying to write
operating system code third world. And that suits their very American
viewpoint just fine, I suppose.
