Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Open letter to the UDI folks? | Date | 28 Sep 1998 15:36:06 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.980927202706.22361C-100000@z.ml.org>, Gregory Maxwell <linker@z.ml.org> wrote: > >This is actually funny.. > >On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Bob Young wrote: > >> Eric, Hold off objecting to Intel's UDI initiative until you've had >> a chance to talk to Linus about it. Linus has been talking to Intel >> about it and while not wildly enthusiastic, he does admit that if Intel >> is able to get UDI widely deployed, then it could be a bad thing for >> Linux if Linux did not support it. > >We should support it because it is a threat?!?
Yes. If Linux doesn't support it, it's a threat to Linux, because we'll be the odd man out for vendors who want to write their own drivers and want to write as few of them as possible.
If Linux does support it, it's a threat to all the non-Unix systems out there.
____ david parsons \bi/ "Choose wisely, grasshopper" \/
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