Linux on older laptops

[Richard Piper]

Just curious Luke, how far do you take this belief? Do you only run
computers which work with a free-as-in-freedom BIOs as well? 

I used NDISWRAPPER because it allowed me to move to GNU/Linux without
forcing me to buy new hardware.

The way I see it: the drivers aren't immoral; the company's decision to
not open source the drivers was immoral.

Rick P.

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 14:54 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Monday 02 January 2006 13:03, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 03:17 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > > Better to deprive business and a sale than to buy hardware without
> > > [moral] drivers.
> >
> > Regarding my purchase, AMD and NVidia in my notebook was a higher
> > priority than native wlan driver. 
> 
> You mean ATi, I hope. nVidia, of course, lacks hardware accel for 3D.
> 
> > Which you will be hard pressed to find native wlan support in a $1000
> > notebook anyways, most at that price are broadcom.
> 
> Well, I guess the news of a native, moral Broadcom driver helps you here.
> 
> > I'm sure somewhere your stance on this makes sense, too bad this isn't
> > that place.  I'm not understanding your comparison of morality and
> > ndiswrapper I guess.
> 
> The only practical use for ndiswrapper is to load an immoral driver.
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