> a. What is in this for the Linux Community?
Access to device drivers from vendors who don't want to support
Linux but who would be more than happy to support A Standard
Pushed By A Very Large Company.
It's a little something extra that it makes it possible for
end-users to plug GPLed UDI compatable device drivers into their
non-Linux Unices so they can run those Unices on hardware that
normally wouldn't support it. True, the GPL would ensure that
the vendors can't distribute those drivers, but after the end
user sees a formerly unusable because the peripheral supplier
didn't supply a device driver system become usable because she
just plugged a Linux driver in, she'll be more likely to
recommend and use Linux than she would have before[1].
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david parsons \bi/ [1: q.v. `world domination. Fast.' ]
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