[SWLUG] Free Driver petition

[Gareth Bowker]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 10:11, Davage, Marcus wrote:
> Humph. Nice idea. I signed it. But...
> Will it work? I don't think so.
> Who will read it? Other petitioners.
> Will h/w manufacturers read it? I doubt it.

Sadly this is probably quite true.

> Will it change their policy of only developing drivers for the most popular
> OS on the planet to wasting extra effort for developing drivers for
> platforms which will bring not a penny to their coffers? I doubt it even
> more.

I generally buy hardware that I know will work under Linux. If a
manufacturer makes linux drivers available then I'm more likely to buy
it, which means that it *will* bring money into their coffers, albeit
probably not that much.

Gareth