[openbeos] Re: OS Propaganda.... A new world order!

>I want to shorten this to a few key points, then answer them:
>1) Drivers are a critical key to the success of OpenBeOS.

>Agreed, to a degree. One thing that is a vast improvement in situation is 
>that there is more standardization in hardware. There are only a few video 
>cards out there, really - nVidia, Radeon, Matrox, etc. A lot of USB devices 
>(which are the future for many things) use standardized APIs (mass storage, 
>HCI, etc). So there will be fewer drivers to write than, say, 5 years ago.

Unless you have to work around broken implementations of standard protocols :
-)
Anyway, yes, it's a lot easier (see cd burners as an example), moreover if 
there is the possibility to write a driver at all (read there is some code or 
a manual available), we can be pretty sure that a driver for BSD or Linux 
already exists and while we can't use Linux code directly it can be 
'consulted' for infos about the hardware, saving a LOT of time.
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