Re: [Xen-users] Purchasing only the Windows PV drivers for Xen

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@xxxxxxxx>]

Christian Horn schrieb:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> > Christian Horn schrieb:
> > > I think its not the effort that is missing, but $amount_of_money that has
> > > to go to Redmond for this.
> > I don't see a conflict here.
> > Just include it in price.
> >
> > Besides, do you think that every company which wrote a Windows driver 
> > has to pay Microsoft for each person who uses that driver? It's hard for 
> > me to believe.
> There obviously is a need for a pv-windows-driver, and it doesnt exist
> yet. The one part the driver would connect to is the opensourced xen.
> So i conclude that
>
> - it would take an effort too big to develop the driver as open source
I don't see a single reason why a "standalone" PV Windows driver has to 
be open source. It can as well be closed source.

> - or closed information would be needed, only available under NDA
> or smth.
XenSource already has PV drivers, so I guess they already have all 
information needed.

> - or parts would have to be included that had to be baught from
> microsoft.
As above, XenSource already has PV drivers, so if they paid for it, 
they've paid already.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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