Re: Binary Drivers

[Horst H. von Brand]

David Schwartz <davids@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> Honestly, I think it *is* wrong to sell someone a physical product and then
> not tell them how to make it work.

Right. And the driver *is* the "information to make it work", in a
convenient package.

[...]

> How would you feel if you bought a car and then discovered that the
> manufacturer had welded the hood shut? How many people still do their own
> oil changes anyway?

If people don't do this, what sense does it make to tell them how to do it
anyway?
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