Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 1998 00:43:10 +0200 | From | ralf@uni-kobl ... | Subject | Re: Linux, UDI and SCO. |
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On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 07:02:18PM +0100, linkern@cocoa.demon.co.uk wrote:
> As far as I can see, the commercial x86-UNIX community will probably go > with UDI, whether we're on board or not. Companies reluctant to release > specs will probably release UDI drivers and tell everyone else to "support > UDI, run Windows or shut up". If we don't support UDI, we won't get > access to that hardware at all (at least without reverse engineering as is > done at the moment, and presumably would continue to be done where > permitted). If we do, we get access to more devices.
Time to reuse someone's cite from linux-kernel - ``This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore deciede what's standard.'' We're no longer a leaf in the wind.
Ralf
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