Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.

Benjamin Grosman (bgrosman@healey.com.au)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 12:40:56 +1000 (EST)


> > 3. M$ will pay few major manyfacturers for producing buggy drivers for
> > essentional parts of hardware.
> > 4. Linux (and may be other *nix'es) will be more buggy due artifactul errors
> > in UDI drivers for essentional hardware.
>
> True. The only way to prevent this kind of sabotage is to accept GPL'd drivers
> _with_ sourcecode, only.

A friend of mine who was lucky enough to go to the last Linux conference
told me he saw this on a t-shirt there:

"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
technical support line that isn't"

Pretty much says it all, I think.

Ben

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