 Permalink for comment 249010 RE[4]: What is openness? by
phoehne on Tue 19th Jun 2007 19:33 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: What
is openness?" Member since:  It depends on the market. For SATA
adapters - that's true. They sell many more to DELL and HP than
they do to Sun (or Apple that only pushes about 1.5 million
boxes a quarter). When you start looking at more specialized
chips - like Fibre Channel chipsets for their Sparc line (endian
difference) - the market often gets more rarified. And in some
cases, the chip sets are customizations of their existing chips,
so they are semi-custom or at least not-standard.  Let me
rephrase myself. When Sun is choosing a vendor for chips, it
should given preference to vendors that will open-source
drivers. Thereby encouraging vendors to open-source their
drivers.  Reply Parent Score: 2