Re: UDI and Politics (was Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 10:27:05 -0300


In message <19980920093312.A21060@arbat.com>, Erik Corry writes:
+-----
| In article <360483B0.228FAF77@tbcnet.com> you wrote:
| > will be distibributed as freeware for Linux, and the Project
| > UDI members will be counting on the Linux community to work
| > on device drivers.
|
| That is curious. What do they think is in it for us?
+--->8

I'm not sure they've considered that question, instead seeing us as a source
of free device drivers and not looking beyond that. ---Or possibly ESR's
take on the free software/open source economy being based on ego is doing us
a disservice here: they think that the egoboo from being *the* device
driver writers for the Unix world is sufficient payment. (I lean toward it
being more of a services-based economy at this point. Sorry, Eric.)

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electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university

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