From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>,
Kevin K <k_krieser@sbcglobal.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver model.. expel legacy drivers?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:04:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061016190403.GD30993@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161008002.25309.11.camel@mindpipe>
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:13:21AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Easy - when they think they can provide equivalent functionality and hit
> a lower price point (or make a bigger profit at the same price point) by
> violating the standard.
Or they think they can make their product using their own driver work
better and faster and offer more bling than products using the existing
driver, and they assume people will pay more for that hence justifying
the expense.
--
Len Sorensen
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-16 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-14 3:18 John Richard Moser
2006-10-14 7:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-14 11:19 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-10-14 15:04 ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-14 18:54 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-10-14 20:48 ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-15 15:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-14 21:14 ` Kevin K
2006-10-14 21:44 ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-15 0:03 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-14 23:51 ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-15 1:24 ` Kevin K
2006-10-15 1:51 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-10-15 14:33 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-16 9:39 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-10-16 14:13 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-16 19:04 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
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