Comment 265 for bug 1

Hi,
I agree with you. In France the "Commission pour la Répression des Fraudes" begins to closely look to this restriction of customer's freedom.

But there a point which could help to fix this bug:
A website in which every hardware is analysed on three criteria:

For those who want to build their computer (individual or corporate)
1) disclosure of the specifications so it's possible to write an open driver for it.
2) Manufacturer's global politic concerninf opensource community's relationship
3) degree of integration in the opensource software (supported by the kernel, source or compiled version of the driver etc.)

For those who want a complete solution
4) Manufacturers who offer a solution complete and fully compatible with opensource for computers, printers, scanners, pda etc.

When such a website will exist, the Linux users will first look at it, choose his hardware and will be very happy with the opensource solution.
But it also will help to the birth of a OpenSource oriented hardware industry (from manufacturers to OEM).