> By your definition, a lot of the hardware that works on Linux is an "unsupported hack". I don't see why this even matters; if someone -- even if they are not

> By your definition, a lot of the hardware that works on Linux is an "unsupported hack". I don't see why this even matters; if someone -- even if they are not the original manufacturer -- wants to support something, then by definition it is not "unsupported". Whether or not it's a "hack" or not isn't really relevant, and it really sounds like you don't understand the output of a good reverse engineering effort. If it works, then it works. See also: the entire PC industry exists because IBM's BIOS was reverse engineered!