On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 23:35 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > I'll quit when others quit insisting that source code availability to > device drivers that are maintained by the device vendor is necessary. It might be if you're going to compile something to suit the system it runs on. And I don't just mean optimisations. > Other operating systems demonstrate that it is not. Though, those others have the hardware vendor write drivers (often badly) for specific systems. Outside of those systems, you're screwed (particular versions of Windows, or differing hardware - PPC, Intel, etc.). There's probably quite a few of us that bought some made-for-Windows hardware (sound card, graphics card, etc.), that never worked right from the get go. The next update or two didn't really fix it, and there wasn't a third update. So I don't give much credence to the "things are easier on Windows" mantra. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
