[linux-audio-user] Re: Companies Refusing to Release/Permit Linux Drivers

[Maluvia]

>As long as MS Windows is the only preinstalled OS in purchased
>computers, Linux is a major loser . . . . .
>
>I don't understand PC sellers because Linux is free. I'm sure in
>the above situation very soon people would demand more software to
>Linux so that people would not have to put $$$ extra to additional OS.

Last time I checked, Wal-Mart was selling Microtels with Linspire
preinstalled - the least expensive ones, not coincidentally.
I find this encouraging, at least.

>I'm toying with the idea that when a computer is tax-deductible,
>the goverment pays with respect to lowest priced OS. 

Sadly, I don't see this changing.
Government has shown no evidence of being concerned with cost - it's just
good-old boys and girls in smoke-filled rooms - business as usual.

(Incidently, since researching all this DVD-Audio and HD-DVD technology,
I've developed considerably more insight into this issue.
I've got a 'unified-field' theory about it all now - and it has everything
to do with the copy protection concerns of the entertainment industry.)

- Maluvia