why do USB devices often ship with a driver CD, wouldn't it make more sense to ship them on the same

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Published on 2010-05-20T23:14:10Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 23:20 UTC
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I bought a USB to ethernet network adapter, and the drivers came on a disk... I was wondering why they didn't include a USB stick in the adapter, as they seem pretty cheap, and I have already lost the disk ;-)

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