FreeBSD vs Linux

[Danial Thom]

--- Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com>
wrote:

> 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Danial Thom
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:54 AM
> >To: Dick Davies; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
> >
> >
> > 
> >> >  Microsoft pays hardware manufacturers to
> >> > make drivers for their OS,
> >> 
> >> I seriously doubt it. They don't need to
> with
> >> their market share.
> >
> >Ok, what do you guys live in a shoe or
> something?
> >For pete's sake, how can so many people be so
> >patently clueless and still be able to find
> food
> >and shelter? Do you really have no idea how
> >things work? Are you really so brainwashed by
> the
> >geeky liberals that you have lost your ability
> to
> >think?
> >
> >MS doesn't have to "pay" vendors, you toad.
> >Vendors write drivers for windows because the
> >market is substantial 
> 
> Actually, it's a lot worse than that, most
> times.
> 
> The vendors usually aren't the ones that write
> drivers,
> it is the chipset manufacturers that usually
> write a
> stock driver that they supply with the chipset,
> with the
> idea that the vendor is supposed to use this as
> an
> example of how the chipset it to be handled
> when they
> write their own driver.  All to often, though,
> the vendor
> merely repackages the chipset manufacturer's
> example
> driver.

More rambling, useless points from Ted. Whether
its written from scratch or not is irrelevant.
The point is that in order to produce a windows
driver you have to buy the dev kit, and MS
doesn't pay them to do it. 

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