As the principal programmer behind a couple of Linux distributions
(Mastodon Linux and McAfee's WebShield product), I'd be estatic if
I could liberate device drivers for hardware that doesn't yet support
Linux (I even looked into building a NT-emulation layer so I could
use those device drivers when the 3c59x driver was exploding after
only pushing a few gig of data through it.)
Even if the UDI spec is a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy(tm) between
all the Unix vendors and Microsoft to destroy Linux, they have to
get it accepted before they can put in into affect. At which
point I can imagine the following conversation with a hardware
vendor and a Unix representative of the VR-WC.
VR-WC: "We want to to break your UDI driver now, so that
systems that depend on it will fail."
Hardware vendor:
"Why?"
VR-WC: "It's time to kill Linux now!"
Hardware vendor, looking at 500,000 seats of proprietary Unix
A vs 25,000,000 seats of Linux, 1,000,000 of
which are using their hardware:
"Please go away. I have a gun."
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david parsons \bi/ "I don't theeenk so, Cisco"
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