On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:08:09PM +0300, Jacques Goldberg wrote: > You are right, OF COURSE. > > But it has no value to start a discussion about the hen and the egg. It was not my intent to start a discussion about anything. I wanted to stop discussion about why people send vitriolic emails instead of writing code, since in fact they *can't* write code without specs. [snip] > Do you happen to know WHY the chipset manufacturers do not want to > release the information necessary to write a driver? Because they don't want to release the information necessary to build a copycat chip. > Behind this question is the explanation of why some (Lucent Mars series, > SmartLink, and a few more) are willing to write and give out for free > the minimal core code needed to wrap up a modem. I don't think Lucent publishes the specs for their chips either. They just put out some modem driver code. --Paul Vojta, vojta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
