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muddawber wrote:Hardware drivers are one drawback. Some things just will not work. They try to give you a work around that helps get most things up and running. That was one of the issues with Microsoft. They cornered the market on the driver compatibility, and most of the hardware manufacturers would only use windows drivers. That's just like Bill Gates, isn't it?I don't think it's anything really intentional or anything, just that if 95% of computers use windows, and 5% or less Linux, which would you spend all your efforts developing software for? Some hardware has developed a niche fully developing Linux drivers and/or supporting open source development for their hardware, but unfortunately, that is the exception instead of the rule.
Wasn't that one of the big lawsuits several years back, that Microsoft was basically forming a monopoly on the driver software? Or am I thinking of something else?
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