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On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 22:16 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Martin McCann writes:
> 
> > And how do you write software that will be able to communicate with
> > hardware, irrelevent of what changes have been made to that hardware?
> 
> The hardware and software must agree on a minimum set of standards.
> 

That is how standards work, and when a piece of hardware goes beyond
those standards either through design or mis-implementation, who is to
blame?