Novell made the right decision even if for the wrong reasons

Posted by dcparris on Aug 2, 2006 7:26 PM EDT
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Novell has decided not to use proprietary Linux modules such as the NVidia accelerated driver. My first reaction was that Novell was being needlessly idiotic. Then I readthis article on OSWeekly.com, by Matt Hartley. It calls out the leading Linux distributions for failing to band together to pressure hardware vendors to pre-install Linux. I've been saying basically the same thing for the past few years, so I heartily agree with this article. It was then that it occurred to me that Novell may have made the right decision, even if for the wrong reason.

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Talk about missing the point Sander_Marechal 0 992 Aug 3, 2006 12:18 AM

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