On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:01:03AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 9/7/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:13:20AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > Well, indeed, as windows has been known to change or modify the driver API > > unilaterally, so what else is new ? And it is GPLed software, so you are > > free > > to start from the old code base and do your own stuff. > > The difference is that drivers made for Windows almost always continue > to work years later...even when using the supposedly "stable" or "well > defined" driver API provided by Linux, most drives can't even compile > right between Linux kernel versions.
Hehe, and microsoft has not been convicted of changing their internal APIs in order to make life difficult for third parties ? > > > It's still somewhat a licensing problem... > > > > Well, yes, but a legitimate one, so a feature, and not a problem. > > That's a matter of opinion. To me it is a problem. To have a clearly defined driver API is a problem ? Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
