On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:31:05AM -0600, janez.zemva@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Jacques Goldberg writes: [snip] > > Re. Linuxant: why don't the authors of vitriolic calls to boycott xyz, > >and more generally of flaming this or that, waste their time writing their > >prose rather than writing software to make their modems work? > > Because of the steep learning curve. It is easier to write vitriol than > learn something new. Further, the drivers that are available are almost all > based on code supplied by some company at first. No, it's because of lack of documentation from the hardware vendors. They don't publish the programming interfaces of their cards, so we *can't* write drivers for them. --Paul Vojta, vojta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
