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Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica)Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica)Posted Dec 14, 2009 10:06 UTC (Mon) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)In reply to: Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica) by elanthis Parent article: Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica)
This is a really informative analysis that makes a lot of sense, at least the part about graphics drivers.
LWN editors: maybe you should ask elanthis to write a guest article on graphics drivers for Linux?
The only thing I'd add is that it's always the smaller players in any given market who go for open source (or adopt open standards) - only once there's a critical mass of open source supported hardware in that sector, driving down the costs and improving quality for these players, is the market leader (usually) forced to support open source to some degree.
On Poulsbo, I agree that people should not hate Intel for this, but they should keep up the pressure - if nobody complains, nothing will change.
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Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica) Posted Dec 14, 2009 10:36 UTC (Mon) by kragil (subscriber, #34373) [Link]
I guess nobody hates Intel. But complaining won't help very much. Voting with your wallet will. Avoiding buying from _currently_ FOSS-unfriendly vendors like Nvidia and Intel helps.
AMD/ATI has the better package anyways.(Unless you want low power ;)
Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica) Posted Dec 14, 2009 13:24 UTC (Mon) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Complaining and voting with your wallet is best, I think - if the Poulsbo product managers at Intel get complaints that say 'I bought a non-Poulsbo product because of this', it's much easier to build a business case to go open source and put pressure the third party vendor (PowerVR) to enable this.
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