[snip]
> Instead of spending energy "reverse engineering" a binary-only UDI
> driver
> it would wiser to spend that energy educating vendors to the benefits
> of releasing hardware documentation so that the Freeware/OpenSource/GNU
> GPL
> communities are able to write the drivers.
It is my gut feeling that it would be much less expensive for a hardware
manufacturer to contract out drivers than pay for one software engineer.
If they publish their specs, they can get drivers for the free OS's free.
The only reason not to is a corporate laywer saying "gotta keep them
secrets so nobody can steal 'em". TINNUTS. :-)
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Bob
TINNUTS--there is nothing new under the sun.
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