Linux Foundation Reports Highlights from Annual Collaboration Summit

“Highlights from the LF Collaboration Summit include:

• “OEMs rally behind Open Source Drivers. One-third of the Summit
  attendees participated in the Linux Foundation’s fifth Desktop
  Architects’ Meeting. In Austin, leading computer manufacturers
  Dell, HP, Lenovo, and many others met with the desktop community to
  collaborate and optimize Linux for their new desktop and
  ultra-mobile products. A key result from the meeting was that these
  OEM vendors reported that they will encourage chipset and other
  component vendors to provide open source drivers for Linux. The
  companies announced on stage that 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. Asustek Computer, Inc., manufacturer of the
  popular Linux-based Eee PC, is also encouraging its hardware
  suppliers to provide open source drivers for Linux. VIA Technology
  also announced the opening of their drivers and better support for
  the open source community at the Summit…”

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