On Sun, 2006-05-28 17:27:39 -0400, Lee Revell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 22:45 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > ...which isn't always the worst solution to the problem. If some guy > > doesn't want to jump through the loops to figure out what's actually > > broken, Windows may be a good solution for them. "World domination" > > also means "dominated by the world's problems," so I tend to go a step > > back from time to time:-) > > Yes, if it were a perfect world and we had access to all the hardware > specs like Microsoft does, we would not need these users' help. But the > users have access to a lot more hardware than the developers do and > trial and error is often the only solution. But this isn't a perfect world. > If they give up and go back to Windows we may never support their > hardware correctly. No user for that given hardware, then there's no sense in supporting it. If there's a user that *really* wants that hardware supported, then they will put effort into getting it to work, either by helping debugging, hacking or by paying some expert to reverse-engineer an existing driver. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [email protected] . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O für einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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