Intel: Have to play by the rules of the community!

I chuckled when I saw the photos presented here, especially this one.

What Intel is actually saying in that presentation, although they use the "Open Source" moniker for it, is that Free Software drivers are an advantage to their business, one which has to be pursued as something that differentiates them from competitors and that it is not enough to just release binary drivers for GNU/Linux because that breaks the rules of the community and "you have to play by their rules" or else the community WILL react, which that Richard Stallman's anti-ATI protest image very clearly shows.

Seeing this kind of attitude with Intel and knowing that AMD already committed to release free drivers and specs makes me think that the uncompromising strategy we've been mostly advocating actually worked. If we didn't make as much fuss about the inclusion of non-free drivers into distributions I hardly believe it would reach these big corporates as a significant problem. But because we did Ubuntu decided to brand them "restricted" at least making them seem undesirable to common users, while many other distributors such as Debian, Fedora etc. simply refused them.

Now, corporates are getting the message; we want nothing less than freedom and they will have to grant it to us.