Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:53:39 -0800 (PST) From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> To: Dick Davies <rasputnik@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <20060118165339.78047.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3f1760601180600l4050d396g@mail.gmail.com>
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> > 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
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