[wellylug] Asus is anti-linux?

Jethro Carr dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz
Sat Jul 17 07:41:54 NZST 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 22:32, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> In many ways Linux's biggest advantage (diversity) is also its biggest 
> weekness and is lacks standardisation.

How can diversity be a weakness? This has given Linux it's strongest
weapon - it can run on almost ANYTHING!
Standardisation: How many standards does Linux support? Hundreds! (IPv6,
PPP, etc)


> >Impossible to do when they don't release specs and it cannot be reverse
> >engineered.  
> >
> >  
> >
> EVERYTHING can be reverse engineered if analysed closely enough. Over 
> the years the entire Mac ROMs were reverse engineered, if some people 
> can do this then surely they can sit down with some hardware and work 
> out how to get an OS/driver/whatever to talk to it.
> After all I remember doing things like this in my first year at 
> Polytech, its not that difficult if you have access to basic analysis tools.

The point is that we shouldn't have to do that. Linux supports the cards
in a standard way, which Asus has broken. Worse, they don't even care
about it - they could be forgiven if they had released a good linux
driver for it, or hadn't realised and then decided to release a linux
driver. That's easy for them to do - modifiy the existing one with the
new changes (which they can do, as they know the specs). However, there
response was basically "F**k off, we don't care about Open Source!".


The article might not have had the best writing, but the point gets
through.



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