Am Freitag, 22. Dezember 2006 20:22 schrieb Rok Markovic: > Hi! > > Maybe this does not belong to this thread, but I am wondering why > manufactorers doesn't want to release specifications about drivers. > They have decided to develop some hardware for, let say 3D > accelaration. Now they are selling hardware and users are buying > hardware. Users are not buying hardware because they want to run > mighty drivers, they want to use hardware.
You're not alone, I think everybody who knows, how things in a computer work shares this view. > 1. Why they do not reveal spec. if user allready bought hardware, > though they give driver for free but not specs. > > 2. Who can contribute if they reveal specifications (how to use > hardware) ? > > > Can anyone answer does questions? A few years ago I had some closer contact with a driver developer of a well known consumer HW manufacturer hunting down some nasty bugs I discovered and developed workarounds for. From him I know, that most developers and engineers would have no problem to disclose the hardware specifications. The real hinderers are legal affairs and - suprisingly - marketing departments; with little more knowledge about the internals of their products, for them _everything_ created within the company is considered as not to be leaked, valuable information by them. Wolfgang Draxinger
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