Imagine how great Android would be if Google applied the same rules.https://twitter.com/CarmenCrincoli/status/909854644037345280 …
It's not a perfect system (perfect system would be no drivers at all & no need for them), but it's much better than the 9x/XP era.
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You can still pull all the same crap. Raymond Chen even explains how: have a "be terrible" registry key and set it to 0 in the...
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"for testing" installer bundle, get the stamp from the protection racket, and then set the key to 1 in the real installer you ship.
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I'd rather have crappy drivers I can opt to not use than have user-hostile restrictions on my computer.
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"Opt not to use" means you're opting not to use the hardware. Only by forcing vendors to have complying drivers do you get usable ones.
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These are not "user-hostile restrictions", they're "malicious hardware vendor hostile restrictions".
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Not on Linux though. Plenty of working RE'd drivers there. Also doesn't restrict my ability to poke the hardware or the kernel.
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Why is Windows special?
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Because of market forces. On Windows, it's a malicious party (hw vendors) who want to break driver rules for "value added" crap & ..
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