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Oddball should not make a difference
The support needs to be there, whether the manufacturer writes the drivers themselves or they open the specs up for third party developers to write drivers. The support needs to be there for the whole product range as well, not just one or two products out of a dozen.

I have a Mark of the Unicorn 828 Firewire audio interface. I do realize this may fall under the "oddball" hardware moniker being tossed in this discussion, but it makes a valid point. There are drivers available for Windows and Macs. They have no Linux drivers, and will not open the specs, for any of their firewire-based interfaces, yet there is Linux support for their USB-based interfaces. The MOTU 828 cost me $750, so to have cheaper devices support Linux and their top models not support it is a bit disserning.
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It is getting a lot better!  whieber | 04/05/06
But what happens if you go out an buy an accessory that was NOT available  DonnieBoy | 04/05/06
Just wait 6 months  nucrash | 04/07/06
Manufacturers WILL supply drivers if we make it easy for them.  DonnieBoy | 04/05/06
It is already starting to happen  bportlock | 04/10/06
Bingo!!!!!  bka1959 | 04/05/06
You buy an odd ball key board and expect.................  Can you hear me | 04/05/06
Again, the keyboard manufacturers would do it IF we had a common driver  DonnieBoy | 04/05/06
But But But  LGLisle | 04/06/06
Oddball should not make a difference  jheine | 04/06/06
Intel sets a great example...  thaeger | 04/05/06
And you have to get rid of the pony tail hippies  Boot_Agnostic | 04/11/06

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