Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 1998 02:52:44 +1200 (NZST) | From | Spudgun <> | Subject | Re: Linux, UDI and SCO. |
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On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> Vendors will use their dollars (actually a percentage of your dollars ;)) > to write drivers when it makes commercial sense. Its up to the userbase > to make it commercial sense. > > And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK > suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of > > "I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor > 4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller" > "We dont do buslogic only adaptec" > "Nothing else" > "Sorry" > [Click]
But to add to the paranoia Adaptec are mentioned in thye list of people behind this idea. they won't give away the spec but they will write a driver for us ? wouldn't it jsut be easier for them to open their spec up ?? *shrug*
> Alan
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