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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 05:28:21AM -0500, Roger Walkup wrote:
> > Now, in terms of hardware support, it isn't MS that provides that, it's the
> > hardware makers. MS dominates the marketplace to the extent that companies
> > like Epson and Iomega write the drivers for their gear to work under MS. What
> > a deal!
>
> But EPSON does at least provide specs for their printers and scanners to the
> open source community. They opened up most of their previously NDA documentation
> to us.
Both ATI and Creative have done the same. Creative from what I remember
was very daring back in the early 90's or so for supplying specs and
example programs to anyone who cared to ask. And I know ATI did release
full specs to one of their cards without requiring an NDA. I'm not sure
how soon after relase it was, though.
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Beiad Ian Q. Dalton
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