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Originally Posted by gxsaurav
that everyone who uses Linux should be a coder
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I did not say that. I said that it is unreasonable to make demands of open-source writers, because it is their time after all. You can make demands of Microsoft, if you pay for their products. Open source is a community thing. You can benefit from it even if you are not a programmer. Nothing prevents you from asking ( read : making polite suggestions) for new features and improvements. If they are kind and believe in benefit for the community (which the normally do, since they are working in open source), they will listen to your suggestions and try their utmost. They do not have to. You can help them by doing some programming, but it is not necessary. Like has been said before, if you don't want to go near the Open source movement, don't.
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Originally Posted by borg
If drivers are closed source... so what?
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I posted half a page of literature for nothing? Ah well, I can't say that I wasn't warned.
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Originally Posted by borg
Do people care?
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Be specific. People who use their computers merely as tools to get their jobs done, will not care, and we can respect that. However, those whose job _is_ computers, coding, and the like, and who want to get the most out of the machine, and allow others to get the most out of their machine, do care.