If you think USB is bad now, just wait till the next version comes out. And it has nothing to do with the technical merits, and everything to do with IP Legalisms and business maneuvers.
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:11:18 -0800, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically if it works under Windoze then it is qualified. > And since vendors can release special drivers for their > products, they can (and do) work around any flaws in their > implementation. Cringely mentioned this in an article in september http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html As to what it means in the real world... we do have something too lose http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ too bad OSDL doesn't have a certification program for hardware, I know that I would feel much more comfortable buying hardware that had a reputable trustmark on the box. Especially if that mark meant that you had: documentation of pinouts voltages and symbol tables for all interfaces at least the initial open source driver, from which others could be derived a device that had been tested to a certain standard of function and quality This is not a new idea, think Underwriters Laboratory for electrical appliances. -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
