In an unprecedented annoucement on Greg Kroah-Hartman’s blog, he announced that the Linux kernel community would development free Linux kernel drivers for any company willing to simply give them some specs and (maybe) some hardware to development against. This is simply wonderful. Personally, I think this is the biggest announcement of 2007 for Linux. Sure, many people will say, “Well, that’s the way it has always been! If they would give us specs we would write the drivers.” Well, sorry, it hasn’t been happening. Sometimes, it takes an announcement like this to wake people up. When people install an operating system, they like their hardware to “just work”. This can get us there.