Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 11, 2004 08:30 AM
A Timely article. It's been awhile since the issue has been generally addressed.
Why would anyone buy an OS if the hardware doesn't work ? I see two of those hardware problems having the biggest impact:
1. winmodems - I have three laying here. 2. scanners on the parallel port - thats why I can't retire the win98 box. I'm forced to keep it in service. There's a heck of a lot of those scanners out there. and: 3. My Compaq DeskPro 300 Mhz box with a 36X Creative CD reader (all oem) won't read a CD with Redhat 8 or 9. I replaced the CD with a 8X.
Spread the risk: the vendors could/should collaborate on certain key technologies. If they don't tackle *whats needed*, or what volunteers can't handle, it's a problem.
While I haven't spent any real money, I've spent a lot of time and effort doing friendly promotion of linux in various forms.
whoops - just remembered- I bought ( $$$! )the original Wordperfect 8 for Linux, which doesn't work beyond RH6... it's still on the shelf...
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 11, 2004 08:30 AMIt's been awhile since the issue has been generally addressed.
Why would anyone buy an OS if the hardware
doesn't work ? I see two of those hardware
problems having the biggest impact:
1. winmodems - I have three laying here.
2. scanners on the parallel port - thats why I
can't retire the win98 box. I'm forced to keep it
in service. There's a heck of a lot of those
scanners out there.
and:
3. My Compaq DeskPro 300 Mhz box with a 36X
Creative CD reader (all oem) won't read a CD
with Redhat 8 or 9. I replaced the CD with a 8X.
Spread the risk: the vendors could/should
collaborate on certain key technologies. If
they don't tackle *whats needed*, or what
volunteers can't handle, it's a problem.
While I haven't spent any real money, I've
spent a lot of time and effort doing friendly
promotion of linux in various forms.
whoops - just remembered- I bought ( $$$! )the
original Wordperfect 8 for Linux, which doesn't
work beyond RH6... it's still on the shelf...
Duba-duba-dubbya....
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