Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Wed Jan 31 2007 - 12:55:46 EST


Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Jan 30 2007 14:00, Roland Dreier wrote:
An uncharitable vendor might decide it's not worth publishing specs,
since the Linux guys can reverse engineer the Windows driver just as
fast anyway.

And ndiswrapper gives fire to just releasing the Windows one :(

Logically this makes sense from a user perspective, but I tend to doubt ndiswrapper is really a motivator for a vendor? One would think that vendors would rather not have a crash-y solution for their hardware.

Jeff



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