In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Jos=E9_M=2E_Fandi=F1 o=22?= writes:
>> Sam compiled those binaries, he has the source code. >> > And it is a matter of trust. > >from the phk's comments I deduce that it was a NDA between Atheros >and FreeBSD. The NDA is between Atheros and Sam Leffler. >In my opinion the difference is that with NDA you place trust in >a few persons (the ones with the code), whilst with open source >drivers the code can be reviewed by all people with enough >knowledge about the subject and since peer review is an important >concept in FOSS quality (and security) it would be desirable >to have free code. While that is certainly true, I also feel that the fact that Atheros has actively tried to work with the FOSS people to get a good driver should be credited to them. Other vendors have been totally impossible to work with. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
