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From: Thomas Hudson <thudson@cygnus.com>
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"Christopher T. Lansdown" wrote:
> make comments this stupid?  "What does freedom matter to most people, they
> don't have the ability to take advantage of it anyway?"  

I agree.

I think Bob Young (RedHat) has a good analogy for this. Would you buy
a car with the hood locked so that only the car company could fix it?
I may not have the ability to work on the engine, but maybe my uncle,
or thousands of other mechanics, could fix any problems I might have.

I think the danger is that someone could write a really bad driver
and then say they support linux. How shocked would you be when you
purchased a sound card because the box said "includes linux drivers",
only to find out you have to run linux 1.0, or since the company
later discontinues the card, it has no reason to continue support of 
of the driver. Or the company goes out of business. 

In any other industry it would be absurd. Some day it will be in 
the computer industry.

Thomas

