Subject: Re: Driver model.. expel legacy drivers?
From: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 15:33 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Sad, 2006-10-14 am 19:51 -0400, ysgrifennodd John Richard Moser:
> > > Microsoft are also being very helpful. They are making it harder and
> > > harder for people to use drivers not microsoft-signed which in turns
> > > pushes up costs for development and as a result encourages more
> > > standardization of driver interfaces to take place.
> > 
> > huh?
> 
> Every vendor of products for Microsoft Windows (which is still the
> primary market for all their hardware) has to provide drivers or work
> with pre-existing drivers. The harder Microsoft makes it (in financial
> terms) for them to produce drivers the more incentive they have to use
> the existing standards or to create new ones.
that makes very much sense, theres just one thing i dont understand.

when there is an established standard, how can it EVER be in a companys
best interrest to develop a new product that doesent use it, and thereby
requires the development of new drivers, the distributing of those
drivers, and all that sort?
> 
> Alan
> 
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