Scott van Looy wrote:
Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>>> Most of my closed source drivers are used with closed source OS's and
>>> are simply not an issue.
>>
>> I assumed, since you are writing to a Fedora newsgroup/mailing list,
>> that you were talking about using closed drivers under Fedora.
>>
>> If you are talking about Windows drivers under Windows OS
>> I don't really see the relevance.
>
> The relevance is that the Linux faithful like to regurgitate the lines
> about how stable interfaces and binary drivers can't work when in fact
> they work just fine and the majority of the world runs on them taking
> advantage of the vendor's expertise and desire for a competitive
> advantage. Just a reality check...
They do?
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp puts Linux at 3%.
Somewhere I thought I saw that current sales were around 8% Mac compared
to the overall 3.8% though.
Most people here are trying to explain FOSS to you...
The issue has nothing to do with open source, which in general co-exists
nicely with proprietary software.
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