(2) While it's cheaper to write software once than build better hardware
many times, it's probably cheaper for those who care to pay enough attention
to buy decent modems in the first place, or buy new ones (if they didn't
do Linux when they bought the machine, or bought a machine that only came
with a winmodem) than for good programmers to implement all the software
a winmodem requires, even if they do get docs. Especially if there are
significant differences in the various winmodems' hardware...
(3) The only problem with (2), is all the people who don't know any better,
don't want to pay for quality, and are buying up all those sub-$5 PC's.
If Linux is to truly dominate the desktop, we'll have to do it over the
heaped stupidity of the masses, or at least wait until everyone gets
cablemodems and stuff. Nobody's going to bother to dumb down an NE2000
far enough to make it incompatible but cheaper, right?
Keith
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