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SubjectRe: Open letter to the UDI folks?
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IGNORE the UDI-proponents' willingness to volunteer all of
Linuxdom for free driver-writing services, and instead just
make sure Linux can use UDI drivers that don't yet have UDI
equivalents.

If the Linux community would concentrate on _just_ making the UDI
support layer robust, Linux could focus on capably exploiting
whatever drivers come from whatever sources.

GPL the UDI support layer module, but leave it out of the
official kernel sources, so that vendors aren't left to think
that just providing a UDI driver gets them of the hook for
"real" Linux support.

Ted writes:
> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 23:22:46 -0500
> From: Terry L Ridder <terrylr@tbcnet.com>
>
> If we take Mr. Kevin Quick's statements as they are stated in the
> article it would seem clear what they want. The reference platform
> will be released as "freeware" ( I am assume GNU GPL since it would have
> ti link with the kernel. ) to the Linux Community, and the Linux
> Community is to undertake the "daunting" task of writing all those UDI
> device drivers. Once we have written them the commercial OS vendors and
> peripheral vendors will use our work as a "basis" for their work.
>
> Yes, but that's insane. Why would any Linux developer choose to do so?
> I might write a UDI driver if someone paid me enough money to do so, but
> to do so for free? Why? Especially when a native driver will probably
> work better, and probably be easier to write.
>
> I do not see it as harmless. If the Linux Community "buys" into
> Project UDI without getting I2O opened up, we are dealing with the
> same participants. Using the analogy that Alan Cox used, it is hard
> to shake the right hand of Project UDI when the left hand is on the
> binary-only sword of I2O.
>
> I see it as harmless because if you are right about the UDI Project, it
> will simply never fly. The Linux Community is a volunteer community,
> and as such, no one can dictate to our various volunteer developers to
> suddenly start developing all of these UDI drivers for free. It simply
> isn't going to happen.

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