On Fri April 22 2005 11:00 am, Mike McMullin wrote: [snip]
It's easy to pick on M$, but the real problem is that hardware vendors do not provide drivers for Linux. M$ has no control over what OS a
Well, I KNOW that in some cases, at least, M$ has put heavy presure on some OEMS to not provide Linux drivers......just like they did in the "OS/2 days."
particular piece of hardware is used on. It's in the hardware manufacturers best interest to realize that having drivers out for the differing OS' is ultimately to their advantage, and open sourcing that information even more so. By the time a competitor can get their clone to market, the manufacturer can have newer and better products out leaving the non-innovators in the dust, and not have to worry about the overhead of writing multiple drivers for multiple OS'. Open source makes darn good (hardware) sense in this case IMO.
I agree with you, and have used that argument with a number of developers without success. Maybe there's not enough of us calling them. Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."