Re: [Off Topic Conspiracy Theories] RE: UDI and Free(tm) Software

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:49:45 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Nathan Hand wrote:

> Where did Terry write "deliberately"? If you seriously think that
> hardware manufacturers release perfect non-buggy drivers, I would
> be forced to say something unprintable.
>
> For example ...

[SNIP]

> ... and I won't even go into the Tekram incident ...
>
> These are official drivers. I'm much happier with the free driver
> model, because when things go wrong (and they have) I can get out
> my editor and fix the blasted things (and I have).

Then you should be happy that you can hack your UDI environment
to provide a nice sandbox for reverse-engineering the driver.
Plus, of course, the benefit of having the driver handy for
disassembly :)

Rik.
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