On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:47:06AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > One would think that in the world of high-technology, there would be a > huge upside to making products easy to use, which would naturally > require free availability of documentation and code (among other > things). But vendors seem to work contrary to that objective, which > must mean that there's an even bigger upside to NOT making a product > easy to use. Your argumentation neglects the possibility that vendors just do it the way they always did. Don't assume that some intelligent life form has mandatorily taken an intentional decision :) rsc -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
