> I'm thinking this business about UDI from SCO/Intel calls for a community
> response -- basically, an open letter urging the consortium to include
> OSD-conformant licensing of drivers as one of their conformance criteria.
>
> Seems to me this is the kind of jawboning is precisely the sort of
> thing we ought to be using my mainstream visibility for (current batch
> of interviews upcoming: Upside, Fast Company, Le Monde, and the NY
> Times business section).
>
> I'm willing to draft that letter, and will invite signatories from the
> LI Board and the kernel list. OTOH, if anyone else has a case that
> they can do a better job, I will cheerfully defer to it.
>
> I've looked for a contact address for the UDI people, but have yet to find
> one. Anybody got a line?
As member of the non-Intel faction I also have to object any non-OSD
drivers. From point of architectures like ARM or MIPS many x86 only
drivers are basically unusable without heavy fixing.
Ralf
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