Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

[Chad Perrin]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:05:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> >So . . . are you saying that increased support for 3D accelerated
> >graphics is not an "improvement", and should therefore not be considered
> >a worthy goal?
> 
> full support of open hardware standards is an requirement.
> 
> support for closed hardware standards isn't important.

I disagree.  I believe, rather, that support for closed hardware specs
isn't *as* important -- but is still at least somewhat important.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
My first programming koan: If a lambda has the ability to access its
context, but there isn't any context to access -- is it still a closure?
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