On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:04:55PM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

> the makers of USB CD-R/RW drives* use chipsets that follow a proprietary
> protocol, not the USB Mass Storage protocol. I've talked to the makers
> of one of the more popular USB-ATAPI chipsets, and they had absolutely
> no interest in providing documentation that wasn't under an NDA.

Come on! Be serious! How is Company X going to get rich selling software
if there are competing software packages that allow people to use hardware
Company X has built and sold?

(It's not as eloquent as I've heard it said before, but the idea is
there.)

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