On Oct 14, 2006, at 6:51 PM, John Richard Moser wrote:
Microsoft are also being very helpful. They are making it harder and
harder for people to use drivers not microsoft-signed which in turns
pushes up costs for development and as a result encourages more
standardization of driver interfaces to take place.
huh?
My assumption is that vendors may make fewer gratuitious interface
changes so the hardware is more likely to work with existing, signed,
drivers. If changes aren't made, existing Linux drivers are more
likely to work with new revisions of hardware.
My experience in the past for hardware, such as USB based flash
memory readers, is that when they came out you seemed to always need
a proprietary driver, and Linux drivers needed hints for different
readers. It seems better these days, with things like USB keys
generally working in both Windows and relatively modern distributions
without much effort.llin
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