Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:54:43 +0100
From: Rolf Gierling <email@hidden>
Am 30.11.2007 um 02:01 schrieb Graeme Gill:
<snip>
>
> Linux may never make it as a viable desktop platform, but
> it is steadily increasing in popularity
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Graeme,
don't forget those embedded Linux "machines" that are very popular
and common in the measuring industry. Definitively a commercial
market, and a no go with closed loop drivers.
Exactly -- it's the specs required to write the *driver* that need to
be open. We don't care if higher level information about the software
is closed. That's why we want hardware specs, not an SDK (SDK's
usually specify the interface to the driver -- in this case, we want
to write our own driver, which may have an entirely different
interface).
--
Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail email@hidden
Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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