Re: #@$Drivers
> One problem for many (most?) businesses and individual users is the lack of unix drivers (that actually work) for many older peripherals.
There are actually two aspects to that. I believe that you are only partly right.
In that a lot of older hardware *never* had Linux support, then it is only supported if someone in the community took the time to reverse-engineer comms with the device and implemented a driver for it.
However, a *lot* of older hardware that had Windows drivers were never updated when Microsoft changed the driver architecture, for example when they started to require signing. That hardware is effectively dead to Windows users unless they virtualise an older Windows installation. For much of that hardware, Linux is now your own only hope since the drivers are either part of the kernel (and therefore probably kept up-to-date), or part of an external project like SANE for scanners. Once there is open source software to support the hardware, it can be resurrected even if nobody is currently building binary drivers for it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
