It isn't this easy. Linux developers have had an open offer to write drivers for
Linux for free for over a year now. Progress is slow, but we are moving forward.
However, OEMs don't trust their proprietary info to unpaid developers as their
is nobody to sue if they their trade secrets get out. Some are worse than
others, but it is a problem with non-disclosure agreements and not having the
weight of a company behind your name. The small size of the market does not make
it worth the risk for many OEMs. That will only change as more people use Linux,
especially in the developing countries in Asia and in Europe where open source
is bigger.

We need to let OEMs know by voting with our pocketbooks. I will not buy any
hardware unless the developers will support Linux. That means I won't buy
Seagate or ATI (they are getting better with support, but still not up to
Nvidia's). And if ASUS keeps up its migration to Windows at the expense of
Linux, I will be sorry I ever bought a eeePC. Recently they announced a bunch of
new computers for India and Latin America. All will come with Windows XP and
Linux won't be available and they are selling these to provinces in India and
countries where Linux rules and it is the OS used in education. This is an
erosion of Linux and not an expansion.
See:
www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/.../more_evidence_microsoft_tying_up_the\
_asus_eeepc