[advocacy-discuss] I was thinking...

[Renaud Manus]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Uros Nedic wrote:
>>   ...why SUN, as a global corporation when decided to go to the market of
>> operating systems
>> for personal computers, laptops, nettops, netbooks, etc., did not make some
>> contacts with
>> Adobe, Autodesk, Wolfram Research and other software vendors to ask them for
>> porting their
>> commercial software to OpenSolaris?
> 
> What makes you think Sun didn't do this?   The soon-to-be-released Adobe Acrobat
> for OpenSolaris & Solaris x86 is one example of a company heavily lobbied by Sun
> to port.   When it comes to dealing with other companies, you're not going to
> know most of what happens, because it happens behind closed doors - not all
> companies are interested in transparency or in weakening their position in
> ongoing negotiations by having details made public.
> 
>>   And for the end of this letter - last observation. Here, we will develop
>> drivers for existing
>> and old devices, but also, SUN should approach big hardware vendors (at
>> least!), and agree
>> with them driver support for their future hardware products. 
> 
> Again, been happening for years.  In the area I'm most familiar with, Intel &
> nVidia work with us to make sure their new graphics products have drivers when
> released.

Sun has been working for years with AMD but still we are unable to get a
decent graphic driver for ATI cards. Do you know what's going on here?

-- Renaud