Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why do these companies not open source their complete drivers? > > Because they have intellectual property in their drivers that > > As if their concurent where not capable of reverse engineering the > drivers.
And if they did and they got caught, their company would essentially be destroyed. Proprietry software developers in general do *not* reverse engineer other companies intellectual property. Hell, just try selling software you have developed to IBM and deal with the huge battery of COO (Certificate O Ownership) issues before IBM will accept your product! These companies take intellectual property very seriously, indeed even more seriously now with the SCO lawsuit; now I am glad we have all the COO's in place already and I am sure IBM is too. Regards, --- Kendall Bennett Chief Executive Officer SciTech Software, Inc. Phone: (530) 894 8400 http://www.scitechsoft.com ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
