> Yes, becouse Windows is a copyrighted professional OS, so part of the codes > are completely proprietary. U can criticize that, but it's a Microsoft > choice. They spent lots of money to have the better code in this world, so > obviously they not wanna share it without the acknoledgement. > > Right, but I think, for the final user, FIRST THING is having basic things > - like point the phone - working FIRST TIME. How can a well trained person > like myself - and like many others like me - have to spent lots of time to > make a phone against a SLOW IrDA stack working???
right... better code ;) i'm not really sure why there are so many issues connecting to devices. i'm sure alot of the reasons have to do with basic setup and people not doing it right the first or second (or third time). i'm fairly certain that alot of companies just use the default M$ stack for testing their devices too - so maybe the problems aren't really with the irda stack, but something that manufacturers have worked around to work with windows. irda's really a desktop protocol so that makes some sense. actually, i know there's a new web page in the works, and this sounds like good web page material: what devices has linux irda been known to connect to and been known to have problems with? what are the reasons for those problems? how can they be worked around? who's working on that? jean, dag, claudiu, what do you think - a little database where users can lookup the devices they want to connect and see if its been tested, how well it works, how to make it work, etc? anyway, the problem i'm discussing isn't the performance of the irda stack (which is fine from what i can tell) or the quality and uses of either operating system. i actually have a non-desktop, mission critical application that requires more irda stack support than M$ provides. i'd also like my application to be portable. i know the linux irsock api pretty well and would like to be able to take that extended functionlity to windows. Andrew Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Linux-IrDA mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pasta.cs.UiT.No/mailman/listinfo/linux-irda
