On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 18:34 -0800, jdow wrote: > From: "Jeff Vian" <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 21:40 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > >> jdow wrote: > Some of what I have done for the show control industry involves > custom device driver-like gadgets designed to look like MIDI ports to > applications but in reality do something a little "different" like > control PLCs. If I give that code away "poof" I'm out of a market. If you would have to rewrite Linux you would also be *poof* out of the market, wouldn't you ? If you would have to buy a 75 Euro WinXPe for your 50 Euro gadget you would be 75 Euro more expensive than the competition that uses Linux and you would also be *poof* out of the market. What I don't really understand is how you go *poof* out of the market when you sell gadgets that need a open source driver ? People still would have to by the gadget, wouldn't they ? - Erwin
