Chris Maeda writes:
 > I don't see how this works.  If Russ charges the same as everyone
 > else to sell the hardware then he is giving his labor away.  If he
 > charges more, then someone can undercut him.  What if the driver
 > get distributed for free and people buy the hardware from the 
 > bargain basement mail order houses (like they do now for everything 
 > else)?

That is a possibility, but the hardware is rather obscure and there
are not many resellers at this point.  It's not incredibly popular in
the DOS/Windows world, but that's mostly because the manufacturer
doesn't know how to market it.  I wouldn't consider this plan for
hardware that some number of Linux users already have, but who have no
driver (e.g. any Xircom product).

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