I'd be very interested to write the driver for *BSD (OpenBSD, NetBSD,
BSDi / BSD/OS and FreeBSD).
If Alcatel could provide the hardware (SpeedTouch) that would be
appreciated.
Nick
> 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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