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Subject: Re: ALSA Soundcard Vendor Information 
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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 15:01:00 -0500
From: Paul Barton-Davis <pbd@op.net>
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>My problem is what should I tell to end users which doesn't know
>anything about GPL, free software, but they want use their hardware with
>Linux? 

You tell them that Linux is a free/open source operating system, and
that the company that produces the hardware they want to use doesn't
believe in software like Linux. You tell them that if they want to use
hardware from companies like that, they should use Windows. If they
really want to use Linux, they should use hardware where the
manufacturer has not made it impossible for us to provide the
source code to the driver, or better yet, where a company like Trident
has actually helped done this themselves.

--p

