Eventually all major drivers for Linux will be free.
Proprietary drivers are basically a temporary workaround for the chicken-and-egg problem. I think that the quality and reliability of free software drivers, for the hardware features they support, speaks for itself. I don’t think that improved proprietary drivers significantly impacts community efforts to develop free software drivers. I suppose this could result in better proprietary drivers instead of better free software drivers. While this may not happen overnight, we do expect to have a broader range of hardware support with Linux over time. We use partial open-source or closed source (“restricted” in Ubuntu terms) drivers where there is no equivalent open-source driver.įor hardware options not offered with this release, we are working with the vendors of those devices to improve the maturity and stability of their associated Linux drivers. We configure/install open source drivers for hardware, when possible. They don’t say that they’ll pick hardware with free drivers over hardware with non-free hardware. Whatever floats their boat^H^H^H^H business I guess They have a good opportunity to ask for specs or open drivers, and it would be a shame for non Ubuntu users if they didn’t leverage it at all. If it doesn’t, if it has binary drivers for the supplied kernel from Ubuntu only, I might as well get a machine elsewhere: it offers me zero advantage.Īgain, this isn’t a purity thing, but I think it might help their business if customers had the assurance they could use any distro they please with the hardware delivered. If I bought one of their machines it wouldn’t be to use Ubuntu (I have other distro preferences) and I’d like the assurance my hardware would work with any distro. I’m not as interested in seeing them approach this from some sort of software purity standpoint, but I would appreciate hardware with open drivers. They don’t say that they’ll pressure hardware vendors to publish specs or free drivers.
> They don’t say that they’ll pick hardware with free drivers over hardware with non-free hardware. We, the community, sold them on this by convincing them it was a business opportunity.Īs it should be for a business. > If they weren’t, I’d be *highly* suspicious. It seems that they are carefully avoiding making promises about free software.
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