On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:21 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Why should Linux sacrifice stability just so vendors can keep their > hardware interfaces secret?
although i broadly agree with lee on most things, i think that this way of approaching this issue is unnecessarily confrontational. just flip it around ... why should vendors expose their hardware interfaces just to keep linux' reputation for stability up? i don't have a non-confrontational alternative, though :)