Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:34:07PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:48:06PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > > Someone might write a free driver for Windows, that this wrapper could run.
> >
> > Yes, someone could. But I doubt someone will. What would be the point?
>
> You're asking what the point of Free Software is? The answer doesn't
> care which OS you're running: releasing source for drivers in Windows is
> useful, too.
>
> (Of course, in practice most companies willing to release Free drivers
> for Windows do so for Linux first, so there's usually little reason to
> use the Windows drivers through a wrapper, but there's certainly a point
> to writing free drivers for Windows.)
Yes, this is what I meant.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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