Re: [usbip-devel] Windows USB/IP client; can anyone fix it? How much will it cost?

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Andrew Bobulsky <ru...@gm...> wrote:
> Is there a Windows driver developer familiar with the USB/IP project that
> can bring the Windows driver and client up to the level of functionality and
> reliability needed to make it generally useful?  If so, what is your asking
> price for this service, and how much time do you estimate that it will take?
>
> My plan is to fund this with a few hundred dollars of my own money and
> attempt tocrowdsource the remainder of the funds via other online forums
> such as Reddit and a few mailing lists where this would be popular, and tie
> it together on Kickstarter or similar.

You might want to ask in this mailing list (double as a forum as well).
It is where the Windows driver developers hang out, including some
people who are actively engaged in some Open Source Projects.
http://www.osronline.com/showlists.cfm?list=ntdev

One of them is James Harper who has contributed quite a lot to
the Xen project for the Windows Driver part.

Another expert Tim Roberts is quite active in the libusb project.

I believe to write a proper Windows driver and maintain it takes
a lot of time and efforts and the price will not be cheap. For example
I am involved in libusb-win32 and libusbK project as a support
admin (I do not code) and I can see that Travis (the main admin
doing the development) spent quite some time on it. And we
also need to purchase the code signing certificate to sign the
driver.

Your better hope may be to persuade companies like Redhat to
help. Apparently they have some Windows driver developers.
Eg: http://www.spice-space.org/download.html

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Xiaofan