"Christoph .J Thompson" <cjsthompson@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, 17 May 2009 09:47:04 +0100 > Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> the talk Butler Lampson gave for Roger >> Needham's 50+5 presentation >> <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/events/needhambook/videos/1032/head.wmv> > > Haven't used Windows seriously in over a decade, I never have, except to look at web pages to check that they're compatible with the bugs in internet exploiter. > but as far as WiFi drivers I think there is no standards. That -- more's the pity -- is partly the point of Lampson's talk. Rather than have standards his claim is that if it works on Windows it works, by definition, and that that's a good thing. I don't agree with him about that last, but I suspect mine is a minority view. > Windows drivers are just like the vendor drivers for > Linux: everyone is doing their own thing. It would be nicer if they didn't do it that way, but what would make them change? It's great that a few take notice of Linux these days, but it'll be a long wait before many of them develop on Linux and let the Windows community write their own drivers. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
