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(2020) I have an old unbranded Chinese tablet that came with a CD-ROM containing the driver, configuration utility, their source code, and even a datasheet for
by userbinator 1y ago
(2020)
I have an old unbranded Chinese tablet that came with a CD-ROM containing the driver, configuration utility, their source code, and even a datasheet for the MCU it used. A huge contrast between merely selling a product, and trying to control the whole "experience". IMHO we need more of the former, but corporate attitudes strongly encourage the latter.
- dylan604 1y agoI have an old Wacom tablet on the larger size that I got for free from a company getting rid of stuff. I can plug it in today to my Mac and it just works. No driver software needs to be installed. This blew me away that it was that easy to use. I thought for sure I'd have to surf some hellish landscape of sketchy websites offering software for long since deprecated hardware. Maybe I don't have all the functionality of some of the buttons on the tablet, but I've never found myself needing them. As long as the pen on the tablet moves the cursor, I'm happy. The fact that it even detects pressure was just icing on the cake. I find that to be better than having the source code available. Old source code can still be a nightmare to compile on modern systems.