Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:36:04 -0800 (PST) From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, Dick Davies <rasputnik@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <20060120203604.18166.qmail@web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEFBFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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--- Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On > Behalf Of Danial Thom > >Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:54 AM > >To: Dick Davies; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux > > > > > > > >> > 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 > > Actually, it's a lot worse than that, most > times. > > The vendors usually aren't the ones that write > drivers, > it is the chipset manufacturers that usually > write a > stock driver that they supply with the chipset, > with the > idea that the vendor is supposed to use this as > an > example of how the chipset it to be handled > when they > write their own driver. All to often, though, > the vendor > merely repackages the chipset manufacturer's > example > driver. More rambling, useless points from Ted. Whether its written from scratch or not is irrelevant. The point is that in order to produce a windows driver you have to buy the dev kit, and MS doesn't pay them to do it. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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