Re: why no gcc in 9.1 personal?

From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:40:05 -0000

Moritz Franosch wrote:
> First, a lot of vendors do not open up their hardware.

Why do they not do that?

> Second, Suse
> does not offer new drivers for download even if they are available.

SUSE does not have to do that. The hardware vendor can do that.

>> Why is it that you do not need to compile if you have Windows and need
>> specific drivers? Because the manufactoror already compiled them for
>> you.
>
> No. It's because Windows has a stable binary driver interface and/or
> there are fewer versions of Windows for which the driver has to be
> compiled.

Why does Windows has a binary driver? Because the hardware manufactoror
wrote one.

Linux has effectively 3 different versions, if you look at kernels. 2.2,
2.4 or 2.6. A driverdeveloper will know how to only make one verion for
all of those.

If he does not want to give away his oh so secret code, no problem. Put
the closed source binaries on line. If however they are in it for the
sake of selling more hardware, then just give the Linux comunity (and
others as well) the needed info to make the drivers for them. 

-- 
houghi
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