----- Original Message -----
From: 1stFlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Geoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: Idea.....
> The insults to the gentleman are unappreciated. The idea in and of itself
is a
> good one though for technical reason very bad, you could have been more
polite.
> A Windows driver is written to support the way Windows (obviously) works,
to
> write a translator program would entail a horrible performance hit. Not to
> mention another area were bugs could creep in. Native drivers are always
the
> best way to go.
Plus most drivers that make it into the Linux kernel are open source and
under the GPL. This is a good thing if one of the drivers has a bug, a
kernel hackers can jump into it's source code and "look" for the bug,
instead of complaining to the commerical company that their closed source
Windows driver doesn't work on a unsupported OS that it was never meant to
run on. Most commerical manufactors won't have a problem discard such bug
reports.
Jack
>
>
>
> Darryl
>
> Geoff wrote:
>
> > oh! oh! and a magic pony that will carry the devices to you! that way
you
> > wouldn't even have to leave your pathetically lonely dwelling!
> >
> > wowza!
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 7:32 PM
> > Subject: Idea.....
> >
> > > Why isn't there any sort of Windows-to-Linux driver translator? One
could
> > > eliminate 50% of Linux's problems (apparently)-unsupported devices!
> > >
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