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Le Vendredi 09 Ao�t 2002 00:42, Brook Humphrey a �crit :
> On Thursday 08 August 2002 03:45 pm, Igor Izyumin wrote:
> > As I said previously, you can't always expect open-source drivers, just
> > like you can't expect every program to be free/open source. Drivers cost
> > money to develop, and open-sourcing them is not always an option.
>
> Again complain about this to the companies. When was the last time windows
> included nvidia drivers. They include a generic frame buffer driver and if
> you want the other you have to install it. Wow mandrake does you one better
> if you buy the product they even include the drivers for you. They are
> already one step ahead of microsoft.
If you are a hardware vendor, you may fear open-sourcing may reveal
important things about how your hardware operates that competitors
could copy, thus gaining an unfair competitive advantage. Back in the
days of three- to five-year product cycles this was a valid argument.
Today, the time your competitors' engineers would need to spend
copying and understanding the copy is a substantial portion of the
product cycle, time they are not spending innovating or
differentiating their own product. Plagiarism is a trap you want your
competitors to fall into.
-- Eric Raymond.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron.html
CU
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