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SubjectRe: Driver model.. expel legacy drivers?
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Ar Sad, 2006-10-14 am 19:51 -0400, ysgrifennodd John Richard Moser:
> > Microsoft are also being very helpful. They are making it harder and
> > harder for people to use drivers not microsoft-signed which in turns
> > pushes up costs for development and as a result encourages more
> > standardization of driver interfaces to take place.
>
> huh?

Every vendor of products for Microsoft Windows (which is still the
primary market for all their hardware) has to provide drivers or work
with pre-existing drivers. The harder Microsoft makes it (in financial
terms) for them to produce drivers the more incentive they have to use
the existing standards or to create new ones.

Alan

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