You are really aiming at the wrong target here. Consider two very major
things here.
1) These programmers produce these wonderful drivers we do have
with no thought of compensation for their time and effort.
2) You can't program a driver for a piece of hardware if the
hardware manufacturer claims proprietary interests and won't
release the necessary information to make it possible to
program for the hardware.
I might suggest easing up a little here. For what we pay for Linux,
I personally bought the McMillan distribution of Mandrake, we receive
a value far greater in the view of support and usability than we would
from the makers of the various commercial operating systems.
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick Fry
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 4:08 AM
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> Subject: Re: [[newbie] Linux for home consumers?]
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>
> What does it take to write a video card driver that some hotshot
> unix guru
> programmer can't come up with? If they can talk the talk, how
> about trying
> to walk the walk? I keep hearing about what geniuses inhabit the
> Unix crowd,
> how about putting up or shutting up?
>
