14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
3:05 p.m.
On 14 Mar 2007, at 15:34, Lee Revell wrote:
My other response would be to point to all the
successful vendors who
*do* provide open Linux drivers. Creative released a GPL emu10k1
driver and went on to sell gazillions of those devices to Linux users,
and the competition never cloned their hardware, because they patented
their hardware innovations.
And because their hardware is weird and terrible, but that's another
story.
I agree, FWIW, I'm just not sure that's a compelling example.
- Steve