Re: Simtec v Castle USB

In message <43910db8$0$63051$ed2e19e4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Andrew Hill <user@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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>
> You'll find the same problem on every other non-Windows OS; the hardware
> and OS manufacturers have to work hard to keep up with that. Again, I
> haven't seen the USB stack on Linux, but the ATAPI drivers contain a
> shedload of exceptions for every non-conformant CD ROM drive that the
> authors have encountered. That's what the OtherDevs file is in MassFS
> for - it applies a series of known 'kludges' to devices that behave in a
> non-standard way.
>
> RISC OS developers simply don't have the manpower or the money to test
> every device and make exceptions to the rule for devices that don't
> conform themselves. Conformant devices are highly likely to work
> correctly without any problems on both USB stacks.
>
> Moral: buy your devices via a RISC OS supplier. That way you know
> they've been tested on RISC OS.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Drew

This may seem naive, but I feel that if the hardware developers truly
had the interests of the users at heart they would have made their
software shadow Linux as far as possible. That is where the manpower
to research and track the exceptions exists.
Its the GPL versus the desire to keep everything proprietary that
seems to prevent that sensible state of affairs.

Arthur

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