Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: What is accepted into the standard kernel sources ? | | Date | Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:52:16 +0000 (GMT) |
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> identical ISDN boards. Don't tell me it wouldn't be an > advantage to competing ISDN board makers if a manufacturer > would make his driver software available in source form for > the competitors to look at and borrow parts of.
An interesting but completely irrelevant and ficticious argument. The debate is over the higher level code. The ISDN folks _dont_ release the Linux people their ISDN protocol code, they just said "Its a blah blah siemens chip mapped like this" and let the Linux folks do their own hard work. And there the GPL helps us nicely we only have to write the driver once - each vendor had to write their own driver for the same job probably including silly features solely to outdo the other sides marketing. They all make the same errors, they all have to find and fix the same bugs
And people wonder why the world seems short of programmers.
Alan
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