Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Linux Community & UDI is in the news | Date | 18 Sep 1998 15:26:27 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.3601EF3C.3F80DB9E@tbcnet.com>, Terry L Ridder <terrylr@tbcnet.com> wrote: [About UDI]
> a. What is in this for the Linux Community?
Access to device drivers from vendors who don't want to support Linux but who would be more than happy to support A Standard Pushed By A Very Large Company.
It's a little something extra that it makes it possible for end-users to plug GPLed UDI compatable device drivers into their non-Linux Unices so they can run those Unices on hardware that normally wouldn't support it. True, the GPL would ensure that the vendors can't distribute those drivers, but after the end user sees a formerly unusable because the peripheral supplier didn't supply a device driver system become usable because she just plugged a Linux driver in, she'll be more likely to recommend and use Linux than she would have before[1].
____ david parsons \bi/ [1: q.v. `world domination. Fast.' ] \/
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