Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.
CT@braehler.com
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:52:25 +0200
Hmm, let me see...
They want our drivers, to "establish growth for the UNIX community" (i.e.
for CSO, Solaris, etc).
What's in for us? More work?
AFAIK the driver availability for x86 unices, this would result in a flood
of drivers for the
commercial unices, and a few binary lodable modules for devices not
affordable
by the average Linux user. Or is there a major hole in the Linux driver
availability
chart I missed?
Will this initiative really make hardware vendors think twice, and force
them to release
hardware specs and driver sources which they withheld before, just because
the Linux
community is cheaper in writing drivers for them?
Having an UDI is a nice idea. But they (the commercials) should work our
way, and not
make us work their way. They want something from us, and have next to
nothing in return.
Yours, Christian Treczoks
PS: No, there is no code from me in the *official* kernel, but this may
change in the future.
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