[SLE] Rhetorical question

From: Stevens <fred00sandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:45:11 -0500

Why do some in the Linux community treat ndiswrapper with
such contempt? It seems to me that if something works,
especially as well as ndiswrapper, what damned difference
does it make if the device drivers were written for use in
Windows? I rather think that the concept should be
expanded to include the universe of devices that are not
currently useable with Linux due to unavailable drivers.

Fred

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