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Re: Petition to VIA

From: Andrés (adelfinogmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 16:24:01 CST

On Jan 28, 2008 4:10 PM, Gilles Chehade <gillespoolp.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:11:53AM +0100, sebastian.rotherjpberlin.de wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I don't know if it's known but there's a online petition for VIA.
> > Hopefully some people sign up and name also OpenBSD (in the
> > "optional"-section).
> >
> > It's about VIAs policy with docs/drivers and the lies they spread (about
> > "supporting Opensouce").
> >
> > Link:
> > http://www.petitiononline.com/vialinux/petition.html
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Sebastian
> >
>
> "RELEASE DECENT LINUX DRIVERS!"
>
> I won't sign and I doubt it is a good idea to say to a vendor that we want decent drivers
> when this will only encourage them into providing blobs instead of documentation.
>
> Gilles
>
> --
> Gilles Chehade
>
>

I won't sign anything which uses the word Linux.

Ask for documentation for UNIX-like operating systems for Christ's sake.