On Oct 3, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Byron A Jeff wrote:

> All very true. But I still think you have it backwards. The hardware
> manufacturers generates the windows drivers for the vast majority of
> the hardware, not Microsoft.

Perhaps, but you're understating the difficulties of creating an
infrastructure where it is POSSIBLE to have hardware manufacturers
create drivers for a closed-source operating system.  Even in an
open-source architecture where everyone can look at how everything
gets done, it's pretty difficult to create software interfaces where
you don't end up having to change both sides to add new functionality.

BillW
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