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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:02:55AM -0400, Matt Shields wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Mark J. Dulcey <[hidden email]> wrote: > > > Tom Metro wrote: > > > > That was a good explanation for the situation 10 years ago. Now Linux > >> development is heavily sponsored by large corporations like IBM, Novel, and > >> RedHat. So the real question is why isn't new hardware supported more > >> quickly by these commercial OS vendors? > >> > >> The answer is probably that there is just too much hardware to cover even > >> by these large companies with deep pockets. With Windows, Microsoft writes > >> drivers themselves only for a minority of the hardware. The vendors do the > >> rest. > >>
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