From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 20 20:36:12 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 B94F816A41F for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:36:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7741443D77 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:36:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 18168 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Jan 2006 20:36:04 -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=Wcj+m3jvkcMjypg/LDK3M4E3srjPBcIbhjGpxCAe+rERiUn1lnb0WUf9bZ6XjfFs3RU+kzh5h6wxi6THSnbGDM7t5ECxiUdyG5bNqt/YJlGv2nABq2clNHWvYu1CC525BSyzD/mH6fwnYPA9iRp8Fjf1QJbJUv2SifQxA8ud2JA= ; Message-ID: <20060120203604.18166.qmail@web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.46.157.39] by web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:36:04 PST Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:36:04 -0800 (PST) From: Danial Thom To: Ted Mittelstaedt , Dick Davies , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: 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: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:36:12 -0000 --- Ted Mittelstaedt 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