Bull*** !

From: Jeff Relf (Usenet_2__at_JeffRelf.Cotse.NET)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: 13 Sep 2004 10:57:46 GMT

Hi Grant Edwards,

Mike Cox asked: <<

  If I sent you a tilt wheel mouse free,
  how long would it take you to create a driver for it
  at your hourly rate ? >>

And you replied: <<

  If the protocol is documented
  and the hardware actually works,
  I would guess 8-16 hours. >>

Bull*** ! You are Not a programmer.

It would take 40 to 80 hours
  to do a half-reasonable hack job.

Even then, you'd have to ask yourself:

  If it's so damn easy to write a driver for
  Microsoft's tilt-wheel mice
  how come _ No _ one on
  this God-damned planet has done it ? !

  Further, how come Linux doesn't have a driver
  for my Trackball Explorer ?

As a professional programmer,
  I've been using mice ever since the start of 1982...

  And I've written drivers too.

  And I think the Trackball Explorer
  is the best pointing device ever invented.

  Yet Linux ignores that,
  along with nearly every other device
  sold at places like Office Depot.