3 Dec
2004
3 Dec
'04
1:04 p.m.
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 07:44 -0700, Doug Wellington wrote:
It hardly makes their life harder to release specifications for a piece
of hardware, unless you consider emailing a pdf file to be significantly
"harder".
So i can't
really understand people (oss users or even oss
developers) who try to defend the position of companies that
make their lives harder for no reason.
But it's OK for you to make those companies' lives harder? I seriously doubt that there is "no reason"
on their part - my guess is that everyone has a different position and not everyone
understands (or wants to understand?) everyone else's reasons...
It think their "people will dupe our hardware easily!" reason is
complete BS. If a company has the resources to physically recreate the
FireFace, they surely have the resources to make the damn thing work.
Anyway, since neither of us can prove it either way, like Paul said, no
sense arguing about it.
Seems to me if I was to take the time to contact the companies that aren't making
products I need and berate them for it, I would be wasting a lot of my life...
Well, if noone took the time to do so there's a very good chance that
many pieces of hardware you own wouldn't work in Linux. Lucky for you
not everyone shares your attitude, eh?
(Besides, they ARE making products we need, they're just artificually
restricting our ability to use them.)
-DR-