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Microsoft's protocol license agreement

Microsoft's protocol license agreement

Posted Nov 8, 2004 11:17 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Microsoft's protocol license agreement by petegn
Parent article: Microsoft's protocol license agreement

" We have pussy fotted around with them enought now time to go for the Jugular lets sort them out once and for all end this crap NOW .. "

For that you have to breack the grab on Hardware Industry, that M$ holds tight, and that way with the majority of Hardware Industry on Open Source side, win the desktop... and with that the CE world!

For that to happen, perhaps the *majority* of changes would have to happen in Kernel, not userland... thought the hotplugging enable device driver model in 2.6/2.7 is in the right way!... its clearly not enough.


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Microsoft's protocol license agreement

Posted Nov 8, 2004 16:45 UTC (Mon) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

*please* don't smoke *that* before speaking publicly

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