At Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:02:33 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
On 03-Jan-2006, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
I wish there were some clear solution to this issue....
There is, simply not supporting companies that refuse to give specifications to their hardware, and nagging them to release these specs.
Which is not a solution unless everyone else does the same.
Before buying my new computer, I looked at the graphics card available, but there wasn't a single PCIe card with full specs available. So there isn't an option of "not supporting those companies".
As for Linux, that's certainly a sore spot. Many kernel developers are happy dealing with the devil. Fortunately, there are also many like Greg Kroah-Hartman:
<URL:http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html> <URL:http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2005-October/011317.html> <URL:http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/11/21/>
http://lwn.net/Articles/162686/ is also a good read.
Jeroen Dekkers