Standards have to be respected.

From: Jeff Relf (Usenet_2__at_JeffRelf.Cotse.NET)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: 14 Sep 2004 13:46:38 GMT

Hi Richard Steiner,

You wrote: <<

  If the device you want to use
  doesn't currently work under Linux, then:

    1. find out if someone else in the Linux community
       has an interest in writing a driver for it
       ( or there's an existing project ),

    2. ask the company who makes it to write a driver, or

    3. write a driver yourself.

  There are no other options, realistically... >>

That doesn't work when your program
  has to work for any user out there...
  automating Excel or employing any printer/pointing-device.

  Standards have to be respected.

  And Windows is the de facto standard,
  it is the network, irregardless of the connection chosen.