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On Mon 2012-11-19 07:55:16 UTC-0500, Daniel Feenberg (feenberg@nber.org) wrote:

> The only way for FreeBSD (or Linux, for that matter) to survive in a
> world where hardware vendors care only about Windows, is to make sure
> that FreeBSD only depends upon features that Windows uses.

In a world where Windows drivers are rarely well-documented, let alone
open source? I suspect what you suggest is easier said than done...