Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.

Erik Corry (erik@arbat.com)
Sat, 19 Sep 1998 23:58:26 +0200


In article <199809191957.PAA29472@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu> you wrote:

> Not when they're explicitly wanting us to write their drivers for them (go
> re-read the article that started all of this).

I don't see that anywhere on http://www.sco.com/UDI/
or http://www.sco.com/press/releases/1998/6824.html.
Is there anywhere else I should be looking. They
write

with UDI available on the Linux system, their developers
can use the latest UNIX devices and peripherals on
the market

which I don't interpret to mean that "we should write
their drivers for them". (Quite the contrary.)

Of course you are right that that would be silly.
Why would anyone want to write a UDI driver for free,
when they could write a Linux driver? Performance and
flexibility would certainly be worse. On the other hand
if you are being paid to write a driver you could do it
for UDI, and this will be good for Linux and other Unixes.

-- 
Erik Corry erik@arbat.com         Ceterum censeo, Microsoftem esse delendam!

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