Re: Competition

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:23:29PM -0700, Scrap Happy wrote:
> Sadly, that's *always* the case.  MS has the advantage in that most
> vendors *want* to be able to let MS write their drivers, etc. for
> them -- or, have their own staff to do so since it is in their
> FINANCIAL INTERESTS to produce supported hardware.  :-/

Just a correction: Microsoft seldom writes anything but "generic drivers". 
Instead, as a vendor, you get a SDK (and maybe certifications, etc.) for
your driver work. You have to ask someone who does device drivers for living
to know whether that model is better than the open source one from a software
engineering POV (it probably is).

- Jukka.