Hi Fahrvenugen
Your point of view is also good.
So the question in my mind is: Do I want an operating system that will run on the hardware I have using updated drivers, regardless if the code that brought about those drivers is open source or not? Do I want portions of the OS updated to allow it to run on modern hardware (such as ACPI), even if the updates are closed-source? Or do I want to wait, for potentially years and years, and potentially never to appear open source replacements?
Sure, we want today and now to have all the drivers. And as I told before Roderick, I don't want to diminish the work of anybody working on eCS software (open source or closed). But the doubt remains, what about the future ?
What future can we have if we keep developing software that had dependencies. We currently had a dependencies on IBM and they had stopped OS/2 improvement long time ago. We have dependencies on some developers that created close source programs, and had stopped their development without any way to continue their projects. Creating today more close source software is falling into the same methodology after 4 to 6 years when the developer quits, retired, or die.
That's my concern.