[azipa] Development costs

[Trent Shipley]

The general rule is that you can't write a drive without at least minimal 
cooperation from the manufactuer.  

-- That is, they have to be willing to make the relevant documentation public.

-- And they have to provide at least some technical support when for when the 
documentation is obscure, imprecise, or just plain wrong.

If the manufactuer is will to provide that then a good C / Assembler 
programmer can write a driver for most hardware.  They don't come cheap, not 
even in this economy.


On Thursday 15 November 2001 15:09, you wrote:
> What would one expect to pay to have a Linux driver written for a piece
> of hardware, on average? The hardware is a Compaq Fingerprint Scanner.
> Is this even possible to do without any assistance from Compaq?
>
> -Justin
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