I agree with Tim. It’s called the cost of doing business and working in the kernel.
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On Dec 15, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Tim Roberts wrote:
workingmailing@163.com wrote:
> it is a pity!
>
> It seems that only when WIN8 wdk is free to download, we can develop the usb3 bulk stream testing driver.
That is utter nonsense. It has only been relatively recently that there
was a free path to acquire the WDK at all. Traditionally, it has always
been available only to MSDN subscribers.
If you are serious about developing software or hardware for Microsoft
products, then you must have an MSDN subscription. End of story.
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Just to throw some more gas on the fire: You DO realize that “when Win8 WDK is free to download” might be never again in the future, right?
Or, the WDK MIGHT be free to download, but you might have to buy Visual Studio.
The times they are a’changin… Who knows WHAT the future might hold, right??
Peter
OSR
I see this time and again, companies that refuse to spend $1000 on the
right tools yet will spend $100,000 on wasted time to get around not
having the right tools.
You might argue that $1K is a barrier to an individual or OSS group
doing a project, but I’d still say you’re wrong. I have maintained a
personal MSDN subscription for the best part of 15 years and regard it
as part of the cost of maintaining my employability in keeping up with
Microsoft advances.
It’s not as if Microsoft make any profit from MSDN, either. You want to
play in their ball park, you pay the (cheap) entrance ticket.
Mark.
On 15/12/2011 17:57, Tim Roberts wrote:
workingmailing@163.com wrote:
> it is a pity!
>
> It seems that only when WIN8 wdk is free to download, we can develop the usb3 bulk stream testing driver.
>
That is utter nonsense. It has only been relatively recently that there
was a free path to acquire the WDK at all. Traditionally, it has always
been available only to MSDN subscribers.
If you are serious about developing software or hardware for Microsoft
products, then you must have an MSDN subscription. End of story.
In my former experience,
If I buy the MSDN subscription, it will provide some technical support freely.
But in the former, we need to develop the driver as product.
While now the USB3 stream supported driver is just for internal testing, so we just need the testing driver, which need the WIN8 WDK compiling.