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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 10:03:02 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Warning: Rant. Please disregard. [Was: Re: [9fans] Is IBM
	ThinkPad R60e notebook compatible with Plan9?]
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	grow or die
this seems to me to be a statement, not an argument.

you also imply that hobbists can't write drivers.  does being
a hobbist set some bit in one's brain that inhibits the device-driver
region?

i suspect the real reason more devices are not supported is:
hardware makers often make it hard or impossible to
obtain specifications.  there are big exceptions to this.  ahci
was fully documented, for example.

with proper documentation there is nothing magic about a
device driver that makes it any more difficult to write than anything
else.

by the way, there are plenty of professionals working on plan 9.
(and at least 4 new drivers this year.)

- erik