On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > I still don't understand what manufactures are protecting by not releasing > the programming details needed for 3rd parties to develope their own > drivers.
I've found several reasons: 1) They don't even have documentation themselves (which is bad when the only engineer who knows anything about the hardware is fired or leaves the company) 2) They are embarassed about the horrible design. I know of several vendors in this category. 3) They think something is special industry innovative secret (but almost always it is not) Case #3 is usually the easiest to fix, you can point out other people using exact same or better designs. Some of them will then agree to release documentations, because it's no innovative design anyway. It's just their own ignorance which led them to believe otherwise. It's sometimes difficult to determine which case # you are dealing with, since many companies will just lie to you. It's annoying :-( -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
