From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 16:53:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80D716A41F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:53:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FDC043D55 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:53:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 78049 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Jan 2006 16:53:40 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=gUepHsr49e268k12au7eDIjK5WG/5Sz7BTczJdwqLEjTAand/nmUboksp6R1nTHqGoWA6Y2JQnTECBVIePIyRuukoM9dTV6RCIpejqa7jgrvvnG8eNlr0Et2YPuJTz8uhEdnOFs8ys/9EisPfaq4L88GJfOJbRijPr2NQSXCr4s= ; Message-ID: <20060118165339.78047.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.46.186.215] by web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:53:39 PST Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:53:39 -0800 (PST) From: Danial Thom To: Dick Davies , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3f1760601180600l4050d396g@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:53:41 -0000 > > Microsoft pays hardware manufacturers to > > make drivers for their OS, > > I seriously doubt it. They don't need to with > their market share. Ok, what do you guys live in a shoe or something? For pete's sake, how can so many people be so patently clueless and still be able to find food and shelter? Do you really have no idea how things work? Are you really so brainwashed by the geeky liberals that you have lost your ability to think? MS doesn't have to "pay" vendors, you toad. Vendors write drivers for windows because the market is substantial and because if they don't write drivers no-one who runs windows will buy their cards. Like DUH!. In fact, you have to PAY MS to get the devkit to build drivers for windows. Vendors don't write drivers for freebsd because: 1) the market is too small 2) Some don't want to release source, as they'll lose more to taiwanese cloners than they will make selling to 'nix users. 3) X sucks, so why risk having people badmouth your cards? If vendors are going to support a *nix, they'll support linux. The market is much larger. dt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com