Logitech does the Right Thing

x mani x writes "Looks like Logitech has collaborated with Vojtech Pavlik to write linux drivers for all their digital game controllers. All source code and documentation is available. Now I like this company even more ... " Excellent-now if only more companies would get onboard, and recognize the value behind this.

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IMPORTANT IDEA

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Someone--perhaps Slashdot--needs to sponsor a "Thank You" page, from which Linux users can easily send short, positive feedback to those companies who support Linux by releasing specs, developing drivers, open sourcing their old code, and so on.

If this feedback were publicly viewable for a period of time AND an invitation to view the response were sent to other companies, the effect would be multiplied.

Slashdot 'em with love, basically.

Imagine: Logitech releases drivers for their gaming hardware. Cool. A pile of "Thank You" notes collects at their door. The video guys at Logitech are asked to check out the success of their co-workers; and so are the guys at Matrox; and at Toshiba; and at [name a closed-source company here]; and so on.

A couple weeks later, someone other company does something for us. We thank them, and let all their competitors know it. And so on...

It would be a powerful way of getting companies on-side.