On a slightly different note, I recently purchased some hardware for which open Linux drivers were available. So I emailed the company and told them that the availability of free / open drivers was the deciding factor of my choice of their product over a competitor's (it was). We need to do everything we can to encourage and reward good behavior in hardware manufacturers. They do listen as evidenced by the parent.
Are there any good websites which inform potential customers about which manufactures have open drivers for their products? I'm sure there are some around already.
I'd like to be able to browse thru a list when I'm looking to buy some hardware, and would definately choose a product with open drivers over one that isn't.
I have two email accounts which I use for new friends, the first one is a throwaway hotmail account which doesn't matter if it gets flooded with spam....
Only after they have spent some time in this 'purgatory' and I have had a chance to see if they've proven their worthiness of not sending me crap/sending my address out to 10 friends etc.....
Only then will I reveal to them my real email account......
I'd like to see a way of reducing the spam on the net perhaps with different protocols or something, but I'd like it to be done so you could still do annoymous emails etc, because privacy is important, and I don't want to have to pay for each message either. I dunno how they can do this but there must be a way.
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only available for Mac and Linux?? why no Windows version? this, my friends is an outrage!
so... can the average consumer replace their own battery in this new phone?
Yeah, let's get violence off the computer screens and put it back on the street where it belongs.
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On a slightly different note, I recently purchased some hardware for which open Linux drivers were available. So I emailed the company and told them that the availability of free / open drivers was the deciding factor of my choice of their product over a competitor's (it was). We need to do everything we can to encourage and reward good behavior in hardware manufacturers. They do listen as evidenced by the parent.
Are there any good websites which inform potential customers about which manufactures have open drivers for their products? I'm sure there are some around already.
I'd like to be able to browse thru a list when I'm looking to buy some hardware, and would definately choose a product with open drivers over one that isn't.
I have two email accounts which I use for new friends, the first one is a throwaway hotmail account which doesn't matter if it gets flooded with spam.... Only after they have spent some time in this 'purgatory' and I have had a chance to see if they've proven their worthiness of not sending me crap/sending my address out to 10 friends etc..... Only then will I reveal to them my real email account...... I'd like to see a way of reducing the spam on the net perhaps with different protocols or something, but I'd like it to be done so you could still do annoymous emails etc, because privacy is important, and I don't want to have to pay for each message either. I dunno how they can do this but there must be a way.