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From: Paul Jakma <paulj@alphyra.ie>
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On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Mark Rutherford wrote:

> the Linux drivers, are in my opinion far more superior than the Window$
> drivers.
> After all, you do get the kernel module source code....

No you do not.

You get source to the code that shims a big binary object file into 
whatever kernel you compile against.

> I dont think we should fault them, at least they give us something,
> we need to focus on the companies that give us NOTHING.

they havnt given us anything.

> end of rant :)

regards,
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