“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…”