[snip]
> Vendors will use their dollars (actually a percentage of your dollars ;))
> to write drivers when it makes commercial sense. Its up to the userbase
> to make it commercial sense.
Agree. However, it makes no commercial sense to hide data required for
someone else to write a driver. After all, it doesn't cost the manufacturer
one cent and they gain sales. This is why they are in business in the first
place.
This garbage about their design--haven't they heard about patents?
> And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
> suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
>
> "I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
> 4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
> "We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
> "Nothing else"
> "Sorry"
> [Click]
This elitist, arogant attitude burns me up! I sincerely wish *every*
business that does this fails miserably and quickly.
Bob
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