Justin Wojdacki wrote:
>
> Sergey Babkin wrote:
> >
> > The drivers are _not_ assets. When I buy a piece of hardware I
> > very reasonably expect that it would come with drivers or at
> > least the manual on how to write these. It's a part of the deal.
> > There are absolutely no reasons for the card manufacturers to
> > withhold this information, their hardware is their copyright
> > protection device and source of profit.
> >
> However, if the device requires software to take on part of the
> functionality (examples: WinModems, although I'm not sure whether it's
> the driver or the OS that's doing the work there. I also suspect some
> OpenGL cards may be like this), then the driver is more likely to be
> considered an asset. Therefore, asserting that the device manufacturer
> has no reason to withhold this information is unfortunately incorrect.
Agreed. But still keeping the hardware interface secret does not make
that much sense.
-SB
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