Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers.

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 23:28, Tim Tassonis wrote:

> OS/2 died exactly because software companies didn't write closed-source 
> software, hardware companies didn't write closed-source drivers, and IBM 
> couldn't write it all themselves.

I read somewhere that the development kit was obscenely expensive and
effectively locked out all hobbyists and small companies.

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