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Why not put stickers on Linux compatible products?

>I recommend you read hardware compatability lists for any OS you think
>you may want to install in the future.  MS is easy: most hardware is
>designed FOR windows.  MacOS is also easy: it only runs on apple
>products.  Linux?  FreeBSD?  BeOS?  With things like this, it's
>typically a great idea to read up beforehand on the parts of hardware
>you have, to see if they are supported, and how well.  An ounce of
>prevention, yada yada.  

Wouldn't it be nice to have a Linux Compatible sticker on products?
It's got it, you buy. It doesn't, you don't. It would be an incentive
for manufacturers to put their act together. Linux would be on par
with Mac.

This should have been done years ago. But the Linux community puts
such pride in being completely anarchist and disorganised that it will
probably never happen. If a simple user suggests this, he'll be told
by geeks "Well, just do it!" as if he was in a position to act on the
issue.

Hey! Don't you think that the anarchist theory of «no need to use
comments in kernel programming» has someting to do with the fact that
it is more than a year late?

Anarchist means too much talk, nothing really useful being done. IBM
won't change this: the viability of any OS is built from the desktop
up, not from the server down. Linux is going astray just like OS2 did.

GP
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