The original poster misses a BIG, IMPORTANT point: that Linux developers usually have to reverse engineer hardware specs for writing drivers. Take win-modems for example: they were designed to work on Win only and every win-modem added to the Linux compatibility list is both a big success and a whole lot of time wasted because of the manufacturer of the card (video, audio) doesn't release tech specs of their product to Linux developers.
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The original poster misses a BIG, IMPORTANT point: that Linux developers usually have to reverse engineer hardware specs for writing drivers. Take win-modems for example: they were designed to work on Win only and every win-modem added to the Linux compatibility list is both a big success and a whole lot of time wasted because of the manufacturer of the card (video, audio) doesn't release tech specs of their product to Linux developers.