Re: Demise of the COM port?
From: Chris Hills (chris_at_phaedsys.org)
Date: 04/04/04
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 11:07:45 +0100
In article <cu1brmauhv3.fsf@nokia.com>, Darin Johnson
<darin_@_usa_._net> writes
>Chris Hills <chris@phaedsys.org> writes:
>
>> The problem is that neither Linux or FreeBSD == money :-(
>
>It does equal money, because the products get purchased!
However it is not *percived* as large quantity.
>Now maybe they think the potential market is too small to
>justify the cost of driver development, and that's understandable.
>But that doesn't mean they can't relese the specs for free.
>
>The people who use Linux, BSD, or other free OSs are _not_
>cheap spenders.
That is the perception. For every person who is prepared to spend money
you get 10 calls from people who want it free (or as good as) there is
also the perception that the source has to go free.
I have seen several companise do commercial SW products for Linux and
it has not gone well in terms of sales.
>> Most commercial companies will see that market as a black hole and no
>> profits. They probably also think that the minute they get anywhere
>> Linux that their source code will end up on the internet.
>
>That's just silly. If they're not selling the drivers, why should
>they care who sees the source code? The source code is useless
>without the hardware to go with it, and in the vast majority of the
>cases has no significant ideas that another company could steal in
>order to gain a competitive advantage.
>If they don't want to let out source code, and don't want to create
>their own drivers, then they should just release some specs so that
>someone else can write their own drivers.
Now you have made the mistake of using common sence on this :-) The
perception is still that anything to do with Linux is open soure (or wil
get hacked) and no one makes any money.
The HW people don't mind Linux it lowers the cost of using their
platform. However the Sw people don't like it.
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