Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:18:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Kip Macy <> | Subject | Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor |
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I think that they are relatively friendly. However, if they publish the interface to their card another company could come along with a card with the same functionality and take advantage of pre-existing drivers and undercut their price, thus taking away their margins. At least that is the rationale I have been given and this has occurred on at least one occasion to Adaptec.
My opinion is that if you have to obscure your interface to protect your margins because you are making a commodity component then you are in the wrong business. Nonetheless they can correctly point out that they are still making a lot more money than I am :-).
-Kip
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Brent D. Norris wrote:
> I thought 3com was pretty friendly to the Linux Community, was that a > misconception? > > > It can't because 3com hasn't implemented in the driver and they won't > > publish the interface. > > -Kip > > > > Brent > > Executive Advisor -- WKU-Linux > >
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