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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:19:08 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Says:
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Some hardware manufacturers simply won't tell us how
to write drivers for their hardware. Others won't allow us access to the
documentation without a non-disclosure agreement that would prevent us
from releasing the Linux source code. One example is the IBM
laptop DSP sound system used in recent ThinkPad systems ? some
of these systems also couple the sound system to the modem.
IBM released mwave GPL drivers and info a long time back now, and its in
the base kernel. Pick a newer evil example - say Nvidia ?
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