> that's very shortsighted. also selfish (in contrast to sharing ideas > that > are behind linux).
I do not see it being that way since there is no way that I could, for instance, write a good Alsa port for crapple architecture when I do not even own one. I see nothing selfish or shortsighted about that, neither do I think it contrasts with the idea behind Linux. Linux never stood for "selected few should write a driver for everything and everyone, while the rest of us should then just use it and complain how the implementation sucked." It stands for "here's my code that works for me, hack away and port it so that it works for you and others who use architecture like you, and while doing so, ask them to help you, just as people who have architecture like me have helped me." Ico