[ros-dev] My attitude

[Jonathan Andrews]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:18 +0000, TwoTailedFox wrote:
> I can see IBM supporting us, since their last Good OS, OS/2, is now
> efectively dead. I don't see some companies like Sun, or Novell,
> supporting us, since they already have a vested interest in an
> Operating System
> 
> What I'd really like to see are Hardware Manufacturers getting behind
> us. Realtek, nVIDIA, ATi, Intel, AMD, VIA, etc, could all be
> approached, and ask for collaboration on writing GPL Drivers (Although
> nVIDIA is notoriously skeptical about open-source)
> 

Im sorry, snot came out of my nose laughing when I read this...... If
you think ANY Manufacturer is going to back an open source windows clone
when they wont even touch a FreeBSD, let alone a Liux then you are not
living in the real world.

If you want pure GPL then it is best NOT to contact these people and
ask, if by some miracle they sent you any data you would probably find
that you are in breech of NDA if you use it.  

Out of your list only VIA will give out data on request, and thats only
data for devices that don't do multimedia.

Jon