> 1) Not everyone is interested in writing drivers it has its charms. personally i prefer writing drivers and algorithms to writing application software > 2) Writing drivers is hard and not very glamorous you only get noticed if things don't work. > 3) Hardware specs are not always available begging and scraping won't work either. > 4) You can't force people to write drivers not legally > 5) There are probably other reasons as well ;-) summer has started (sun, chair, books, ...) kind regards, Bruno