>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Werner Almesberger wrote: >> Now what's at stake ? Look at the Windows world. Also there, >> companies could release their drivers as Open Source. Quick, how >> many do this ? Almost none. So, given the choice, most companies >> have defaulted to closed source. Consistently complaining when a >> company tries to release only closed source drivers for Linux seems >> to generally have the desired effect of making them change their >> policy. Jeff> FWIW, -every single- Windows driver source code I've seen has Jeff> been bloody awful. Asking them to release that code would Jeff> probably result in embarrassment. Same reasoning why many Jeff> companies won't release hardware specifications... The internal Jeff> docs are bad. Really bad. Trust me, commercial UNIX drivers aren't any better. Jes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Jeff Garzik
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Nicholas Knight
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... David Lang
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Nicholas Knight
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Jeff Garzik
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Nicholas Knight
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Werner Almesberger
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Henning P . Schmiedehausen
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Paul Jakma
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Alan Cox
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Jes Sorensen
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Brian May
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Henning P . Schmiedehausen
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Werner Almesberger
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... David Howells
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Jeff Garzik
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Mikulas Patocka
- Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... Jeff Garzik
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