Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932311AbWCIAU5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:20:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932627AbWCIAU5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:20:57 -0500 Received: from smtp-out-02.utu.fi ([130.232.202.172]:38055 "EHLO smtp-out-02.utu.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932311AbWCIAU4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:20:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:20:50 +0200 From: Jan Knutar Subject: Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers. In-reply-to: <440F4C80.6070907@cubic.ch> To: Tim Tassonis Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <200603090220.50378.jk-lkml@sci.fi> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <440F4C80.6070907@cubic.ch> User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 14 On Wednesday 08 March 2006 23:28, Tim Tassonis wrote: > OS/2 died exactly because software companies didn't write closed-source > software, hardware companies didn't write closed-source drivers, and IBM > couldn't write it all themselves. I read somewhere that the development kit was obscenely expensive and effectively locked out all hobbyists and small companies. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/