Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 19 Sep 1998 17:12:14 -0300
In message <ADTb01sWe7@khim.mccme.ru>, "Khimenko Victor" writes:
+-----
| BK> | You misunderstood me. UDI is not related to M$ as of yet (I hope at lea
| st).
| BK> | But UDI existence could GREATLY simplyify Linux destroing task for M$.
| And
|
| BK> Not really, since if it did it would simultaneously make commercial Unix
| BK> stronger --- unless it involved killing both at once, which is irrelevant
| to
| BK> UDI because nobody's going to drop their proprietary driver interfaces wh
| ile
| BK> adding UDI. (That would be suicidal, because older third party drivers
| BK> would likely not be made available in a UDI version.)
|
| Computer world is fluidal :-(( The only thing you need is UDI binary-only
| driver for few essentional parts of hardware. That's all. Something like
| I2O but needed for "new genaration" of all and every computer systems...
+--->8
Again, Sun, SCO, etc. expect us to write UDI drivers for them. If the
hardware manufacturers pull the above, they prevent us from doing so --- at
which point they get Sun, SCO, etc. coming down hard on them. We could do
worse than having the commercial Unixes backing us against recalcitrant
hardware vendors.
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university
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