I'm amazed at how many products and programs I'm using nowadays that require a wrapper driver so they'll function properly. Mplayer (a video player for Linux) requires the windows codecs in order to function properly on certain file formats (like Quicktime 5, and others). Linux users almost routinely download this …
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Dear manufacturers of hardware,
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I'm not sure if you've noticed this little thing called Linux out there in the world, but if it's not too much trouble, would you mind making either drivers available, or release the specifications for your hardware so some enterprising soul can work on it? This …Happy Birthday Carter!
I'm pleased to announce that Carter Brownrobie is now one year old! Now that you have the hang of this round-trip around the sun you can keep up the good work.
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Take one promoter bent on dominating every advertising medium (including radio and concerts). Take a government organization which considers novel any process that includes technology. Take one rather neat idea, which unfortunately was patented, and you get this.
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