Bert Gunter <gunter.ber...@gene.com> [Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:31:03PM CET]:
[...]
> Perhaps an argument is that certain code might not get written at all if it
> were not proprietary. Device drivers might be an example. 

Device drivers are not an example. Linux is ubiquitous _despite_ device 
manufacturers being secretive about their protocols and interfaces. There's
a whole lot of people out there who seem to take pride, if not joy, in 
reengineering. At the moment I am profiting immensely from the gpsbabel
tool, which translates readily between all different GPS-related formats,
closed or documented.

-- 
Johannes Hüsing               There is something fascinating about science. 
                              One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture 
mailto:johan...@huesing.name  from such a trifling investment of fact.          
      
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