Jim Barber wrote:
> It is encouraging that Alcatel have plans to support their USB modem on Linux
> and Macintosh in the future,
The future is nearer than you think...
> but of course that still leaves out many others
> (*BSD, OS/2, BeOS, etc).
It is just impossibly for Alcatel to develop drivers for each of those
OS'ses.
The manpower and cost for that would just be too much and the possible
profit is too little. (Profit, after all, is the goal of every business,
whether you and I like it or not.)
This doesn't even taken into account that it is almost impossible to
attract the people who can actually write such drivers. (I can assure
you do not want to start writing a (for example ;) windows driver from
scratch if you've never done it before...there are MANY pitfalls. I am
sure this is more (windows ;) or less (linux) true for all OS'ses
however.)
The only way to meet this desire for drivers is to release the specs and
thus allow others to write their own drivers. This is what I tried to
tell the managers here at Alcatel and found out that they had realised
this already... the fact that i had already written the driver just
speeded things up.
For the Speed Touch USB, there will be a spec and a sample driver
available soon. This should be more than enough to develop them for
other OS'ses too.
J.
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