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. > > 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. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
