Blaming Intel for how the world is (Moblin Zone)

* People do want to hack devices and hackable devices are very popular for that reason. Even vendors who sell routers are realizing it and marketing it as such.

* The proprietary portions are really the X bits rather than the kernel bits

* Intel contracted out the development of a proprietary driver. It was a choice and not some kind of free market law that they should do that. They definitely deserve to a share of that blame.

* I could before recommend any Linux user to just verify that it is a Intel chipset and be guaranteed that it would work out of the box well or atleast that bugs can be fixed by other people. The brand damage and loss of trust from this move is definitely going to hurt Intel considering things like ATI driver in Fedora 12 getting 3D support and Intel isn't the only vendor anymore to understand the benefits of free and open source drivers and good documentation for the hardware specs.