Re: Linux runs on Toasters, XBoxes, cellphones...

From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_aurigae.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 05:44:09 GMT

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mike Cox
<mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com>
 wrote
on Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:00:13 -0700
<2qkggrF107gt2U1@uni-berlin.de>:
> So why the heck doesn't it recognize my wireless optical mouse with tilt
> wheel technology???

Because Microsoft is inherently better, of course.

(I'll leave it to the reader to figure out what Microsoft is better at.)

>
> Linux developers, it may be cool to get linux running on a toaster or an
> XBox, but try getting the basics to work (like my microsoft mouse with tilt
> wheel technology) before enabling the penguin to run on a toaster.

Microsoft Mouse on Linux? My brain hurts.

>
> I am submitting a feature request to make linux better for all of us Linux
> users who also own a wireless optical Microsoft mouse with tilt wheel
> technology. Please someone write a driver for this mouse. I'd do it but I
> have no clue on how to do it since linux doesn't have a DDK nor an MSDN.
>

Linux has something much better. It has actual documentation. :-) 

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