The differences are still there, and it's usually soo tough to get
companies to provide drivers for FreeBSD. Yeah IBM GPL'd some
winmodems, no one has mentioned a FreeBSD port...
Although the issue might be political, UDI might be the way to finally
get over the "designed only for windows ..and sometimes other OSs"
type of hardware.
Special kudos to Robert Lipe for recognizing the value the FreeBSD
community can have in the adoption of new, truly open, standards!
Pedro.
Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
...
>
> The problem is that at the time this was a huge issue there were a much larger
> number of machines and pieces of h/w and radically different OS's (or flavors
> within Unix even) to support. Such a wide set of differences is not really
> there any more, hence the cost of such support (and the style in which it is
> being done) makes less sense than it used to.
>
> -matt
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