On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:50:00PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Even at the kernel level?  Look at device drivers and vendors as one 
> example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for, 
> what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write one for 
> FreeBSD, one for NetBSD, one for OpenBSD, and *now* one for DragonflyBSD 
> ... if we had *at least* a common API for that sort of stuff, it might be 
> asier to get support at the vendor level, no?

Vendors should release documentation, not write drivers.

-p.