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Tectonic: The Vendor Mafia’s Linux Vendetta

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“I’ve just written a little script that finds all the television
channels for a TV card on Linux. It uses the ivtv driver, which is
a community-written open source device driver that supports the
Hauppage range of cards.

“When I finished my script, it dawned on me that this wouldn’t
happen to a Windows user. If the Hauppage card came without Windows
drivers, without a tuner and without an automatic channel finder,
absolutely no-one would buy it…”

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