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I've been saying this for years, and as I work for a driver development company I can wholeheartedly support your assumption.

We added plug-in ability to develop Mac and Linux drivers into our existing Windows toolkits over 5 years ago.

Developing the Linux driver is easy,
1)develop the windows driver,
2)change a single build parameter,
3)rebuild and you have a Linux driver!

Building our Mac driver is not quite as simple as it also requires some extra coding work.

Despite the simplicity of the Linux solution customers simply aren't prepared to pay the relatively tiny charge for the Linux addition. Some do pay for the Mac extensions which are more expensive.

The open source community only has itself to blame. It's got a small market share and with all their psychotic "free"/"low cost" rantings everyone expects that they should get Linux solutions for virtually nothing.

To commercial developers it's simply not worth bothering.
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