On 20/09/06, Devdas Bhagat devdas@dvb.homelinux.org wrote: The point is that you can create your own drivers, paying with your time or hard cash. For some of us, that whole freedom thing is a bit more important than running on the latest and greatest hardware (and yes, _all_ my hardware works with Linux the day I buy it). yes, I find very few situations in which linux kernel does not have drivers for a hardware. and do you want to know what freedom is? I was at the lab of Dr. Nagarjuna just couple of days back. there is a windows machine lying in his lab "no joke really!" the reason is that yes, one of his hp printer/ scanner does not work with linux kernel. but I told him promptly that I will write the device drivers for it. if the spects are open nothing like it. if they are closed, well, I will at least try. Krishnakant.