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SubjectRe: [OT] RE: UDI and Free Software
On 5 Oct 1998, david parsons wrote:

> >UDI give them a way to throw a cheezy half-assed driver our way.
>
> Writing to a published interface does NOT make a driver cheezy.
> Instead it makes it easier to build a good driver, because you're
> not constantly futzing with the driver to account for interface
> drift, and you can instead spend this energy making the driver
> better.

I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
poor drivers (because they arn't seen) and UDI encourages Binary only
drivers. The simple fact of using UDI will not make it crap (though it
might make is slow, that's yet to be seen)..



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