That's their commercial decision - as a result, if you their cards, you may end up with a particularly expensive paperweight the day they decide you need to buy a new card for your new version of freebsd which has different internals; or someone finds bugs in their drivers that they wont fix.
This is the relatively benign scenario. In the less benign one that "convenient" binary driver that you loaded into the kernel would contain a silent security vulnerability. Google for "Sony DRM rootkit".
it's not like there aren't plenty of other vendors who are more willing to help the developers with documentation in an open manner.
True. -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
