| As a side note... Does anyone have a rational explanation for the
| "proprietary interface" mentality as displayed by video and sound card
| manufacturers?
The only ones I can possibly come up with is the hardware makers in question
are too far in bed with Microsoft (for example), or the companies have
really lousy lawyers.
| Why are they paranoid about something as simple as programming specs? You
| would think that they would want people to write code for their cards.
Logical people would, yes. However we live in a world where a lot of people
are not logical. :-)
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