Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:17:40 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers. |
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Jan Knutar wrote:
>On Wednesday 08 March 2006 23:28, Tim Tassonis wrote: > > > >>OS/2 died exactly because software companies didn't write closed-source >>software, hardware companies didn't write closed-source drivers, and IBM >>couldn't write it all themselves. >> >> > >I read somewhere that the development kit was obscenely expensive and >effectively locked out all hobbyists and small companies. > IBM stuff may have been expensive. There was gcc for os/2 though, which was nice for hobbyists. The way I remember it, drivers wasn't the big problem. The lack of drivers could have become a problem if the lack of software was solved. But it wasn't - no need to drive a device for which you don't have an app . . .
Having gcc meant one could port some gpl software, which usually originated on linux or other unixes. But using such software on linux was always easier, and so I switched os.
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