[ros-dev] My attitude

[TwoTailedFox]

If a company hasn't started writing drivers for *nix, BSD and Linux,
they won't start, unless given a major push. We aim to use WDM, so
most, if not all of the foundation is there already. Technically,
companies don't sell drivers anyway, so I don't see it being a
financial issue.

On 12/5/05, Jonathan Andrews <jon at jonshouse.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:18 +0000, TwoTailedFox wrote:
> > I can see IBM supporting us, since their last Good OS, OS/2, is now
> > efectively dead. I don't see some companies like Sun, or Novell,
> > supporting us, since they already have a vested interest in an
> > Operating System
> >
> > What I'd really like to see are Hardware Manufacturers getting behind
> > us. Realtek, nVIDIA, ATi, Intel, AMD, VIA, etc, could all be
> > approached, and ask for collaboration on writing GPL Drivers (Although
> > nVIDIA is notoriously skeptical about open-source)
> >
>
> Im sorry, snot came out of my nose laughing when I read this...... If
> you think ANY Manufacturer is going to back an open source windows clone
> when they wont even touch a FreeBSD, let alone a Liux then you are not
> living in the real world.
>
> If you want pure GPL then it is best NOT to contact these people and
> ask, if by some miracle they sent you any data you would probably find
> that you are in breech of NDA if you use it.
>
> Out of your list only VIA will give out data on request, and thats only
> data for devices that don't do multimedia.
>
> Jon
>
>
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