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> A director of the largest PC OS licensing company once told me they spent more money on driver development and fixes than on OS code proper. Funny way to ref
by dingo_bat 10y ago
> A director of the largest PC OS licensing company once told me they spent more money on driver development and fixes than on OS code proper.
Funny way to refer to Microsoft.
- newjersey 10y agoIsn't this true of gnu/Linux as well though? A lot of patches are drivers and fixes? For example, one could argue trim for solid state storage is a driver issue?
- dingo_bat 10y agoOf course it is. Drivers will be the majority of the work in any OS that is not locked onto a very limited set of hardware.
- tpaschalis 10y agoI think this is the case with both Windows and the Linux base distros. It's a necessity when you need to support a wide array of hardware, but might be different with Apple's ecosystem.