Lest VIA be the only one, a host of prominent hardware manufacturers are talking about open-source hardware drivers too.
At the second annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, the big OEM vendors all said that they support open-source drivers.
The press release says "they will now include wording in their hardware procurement processes to 'strongly encourage' the delivery of open source drivers for transparent integration into the Linux kernel."
Novell, Red Hat, and Canonical (the Ubuntu company) also pledged support for backporting drivers to older Linux versions.
Let's see if it actually bears fruit.
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