With all due respect, binary drivers can bugger off. As for you, shame on you for conflating userland ABI with driver interface. This has already been hashed ou

With all due respect, binary drivers can bugger off. As for you, shame on you for conflating userland ABI with driver interface. This has already been hashed out, many times before: http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.... You can even get driver development for free: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html If you want binary drivers, find another OS. As for userland ABI, people have static binaries from the 1.2 days of Linux that still run just fine.