[ltp] Trident 9397-DVD programming docs (770X)

[simon]

we could all write to ibm you know .. would accomplish more that way, maybe.
:)

simon



----- Original Message -----
From: "James Hawtin" <oolon@ankh.org>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 13:55
Subject: Re: [ltp] Trident 9397-DVD programming docs (770X)


>
>
> On 21 Aug 2000, Matthew Emmett wrote:
>
> > James Hawtin <oolon@ankh.org> writes:
> >
> > > I think a thinkpad with hardware which has open specs would be a
> > > seeing point. But may be thats just me. Dumb win modems etc etc. it
> > > worth have slight higher price, power consuption for hardware that
> > > works! With your OS of choice. So while lucent may finally do a
> > > modem driver for linux..  wheer is the BSD support etc.
> >
> > Yes, I agree.  WinModems help Micro$oft achieve a monopoly -- which is
> > logically bad.  Hardware vendors (IMO), shouldn't support this.  I
> > hope that IBM will avoid WinModems in the future.
> >
>
> If IBM are truly "open source" Why do you not do this? All we ask is
> all the hardware machines use is documented, I got more documentation on
> my BBC micro than I did with my thinkpad, and the documentation was
> useful, not just another bad introduction to windows.. Why do people
> include that rather than just save the paper? Hell the hardware
> is covered with parents! so who can copy it anyway! IBM wants geek points,
> this would get more than anything else.
>
> James
>
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