Microsofts new way of bashing Linux

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* "Michael T. Richter" 

| The fact is that many hardware manufacturers have trade secrets.  I know
| the CT company I worked for had (and still has!) many trade secrets
| around their software.  Exposing the driver source code can give a
| competitor--one smart enough to keep their trade secrets to
| themselves--a whole whack-o-clues about the trade secrets I have were I
| stupid enough to give my driver source away.  So by making my drivers
| open source, I basically give away my competitive advantage and let my
| competitors reap the benefits of my hard-spent money on R&D.

That depends on how your hardware is designed.  It's quite possible to
design hardware which has interfaces that doesn't tell you anything
about the implementation.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are      : :' :
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