Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.

Benjamin Grosman (bgrosman@healey.com.au)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 12:31:32 +1000 (EST)


> Vendors can lie and point fingers about bugs in their binary drivers.
>
> 'It's not a bug in our driver, it's a kernel bug'.

They can point all they want. The truth of the matter, however, will be
that the kernel source is open and available for perusal. If they are
going to make accusations like that, then they had better be prepared to
quote source filenames and line numbers where it is supposedly a kernel
bug, or their credibility will be damaged even further.

I for one would think twice about buying from a manufacturer who released
a binary only UDI driver, were unwilling to even put enough effort
into that to get as many bugs out as possible, and then went and blamed
their incompetency/lack of testing on others.

Ben

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