"Computer platform advocacy can bubble up in the strangest places. In a recent interview at a conference in Australia, Linux creator Linus Torvalds got the Macintosh community in an uproar when he described Mac OS X's file system as 'complete and utter crap, which is scary'. What did he mean? What is a 'file system' anyway, and why would we care why one is better than another? At first glance, it might seem that file systems are boring technical widgetry that would never impact our lives directly, but in fact, the humble file system has a huge influence on how we use and interact with computers."
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Member since:2007-09-06
I think it was more the hardware manufacturors being strung along in the dark with Vista. If I remember the news from pre-release, the hardware manufacturors couldn't get driver interface specs for Vista in a timely manner. I can't fault them for not being able to write Vista drivers by guessing if that was the case.
Still, your point stands; release driver interface specs and if they don't write the driver, someone will. They could even track the drivers to get a true idea of where the hardware is being used rather than sales stats that can only half-accurately measure Apple/Microsoft market share.
Even the hardware manufacturors that claim patents keep them from releasing code; put a generic interface infront of your closed secrets. No more excuses, the consumers are asking; where's the driver specs?
Member since:2005-07-06
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2005-07-06
got to love drivers.
it seems that one issue with vista is that they rewrote the driver system, making it unable to use win2k/xp drivers...
now if we could just convince those hardware makers to release docs before a product was on the market, not months after...