Nico Schottelius
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Blacksheep

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Office Depot Will sell only computer peripherals carrying the 'Designed for Windows XP' logo Please be aware that Office Depot is immediately requiring all products that connect to a Personal Computer and Notebook Computer must pass these Designed for Windows XP logo requirements to be considered for retail distribution through our stores. This change is being implemented due to our on-going pursuite to enhance and simplify our fanatical customer service environment at Office Depot. Products must be certified as Designed for Windows XP by May 30, 2003. Additionally, it is critical that your packaging carry the Designed for Windows XP logo. With the Designed for Windows XP logo on your product, Office Depot will not only ensure the best user-experience for our mutual customers, but we also anticipate it will also result in lower returns for Office Depot and lower support costs for you. Purchase products from other vendors, such as Office Max or Staples product
news		 Anonymous January 2004
Texas Instruments The ACX100 wireless network driver project: Due to poor support for Open Source operating systems of Texas Instruments' ACX100 wireless network chip, we decided to group together to build an Open Source driver for Linux and similar systems. The ACX100 maintains strict interoperability with non-TI based solutions. - ACX100
source forge project		 Anonymous January 2004
Siemens mobile Cellphones (S55,...) not releasing information to program the software to access the mobile files (addressbook, ...) use gscmxx and hope, that it will support your mobile eventuall gscmxx liquidat 05. August 2003
Epson EPL-5x00L/6x00L printers won't work under linux epsonepl local mails Robert Schlephorst 1. August 2003
Acer usb-modems they replied very unfriendly that there are no drivers and there won't be any never buy acer   Robert Schlephorst 1. August 2003
TerraTec Electronic GmbH Webcam "TerraCam USB" I wanted to write a kernel or userspace driver for the Webcam "TerraCam USB" pro, about 3 years ago.
They refused to offer specs for developer. They refused to tell which Chipset is used in the cam. They said that there is the danger of redesigning the product......... 		Terratec uses a standard CPIA chip for the cam. The Linux CPIA drivers in kernel 2.4 work fine. Due to there is no specific TerraTec development on the cam, except the chassis, it is not understandable why they did not tell that they are using a CPIA.   Sascha Heinisch 1. August 2003
Netgear Wireless Driver for 802.11 a/b/g they offer no drivers for GNU/Linux pcmcia-cs, orinoco patch and so on. But not for 802.11g   Philipp Mischke 1. August 2003
D-Link dwl-520+, dwl-650+, ... they offer no drivers for GNU/Linux (Chipset TI ACX100) buy some other product or try this project   Patrick Roessing 1. August 2003
Promise IDE-RAID cards declares driver as GPL code although it is proprietary use the Linux Software Raid   Hans-Joachim Baader 1. August 2003
Apple old macs they offer no information howto program them   The Linux M68k Project Hans-Joachim Baader 1. August 2003
ESS Soundcard chips they refuse to offer specs for developers; The maestro3 cannot support the optical outs or midi. ESS refuses to give the info neccessary to implement this. These cards are common on laptops such as Gateway and Dell.     Warren Turkal 31. July 2003
Linksys WiFi cards WPC54G / WMP54G Linksys /Broadcom refuses to make drivers for linux / refuses to release the specs necessary for independant developers to make one. buy some other product mail from them Jimbo July 2003
Canon Inkjet printers (s500, s520, ..) they offer no drivers for GNU/Linux gs?   Manuel Zach July 2003
SCO fight versus ibm they say ibm used copyrighted code from sco and put it into linux perhaps boycott sco products would be a good idea sco.com
news.com
asia.cnet.com
caldera.com
OSI Position Paper
librenix.com		 Nico Schottelius July 2003
atheros Atheros 802.11a/b/g Wireless Chipsets releasing binary-only "Hardware Abstraction Layer" http://team.vantronix.net/ar5k/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ Reyk Flöter July 2003
Nvidia tnt1,tnt2,... not releasing information to program the graphic cards utah-glx mails I recieved
my statement 		Nico Schottelius June 2003

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