On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:39:36AM +0100, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote:
> On the subject of http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html
>
> Now these companies have a great excuse to keep specs locked up tight
> under NDA, while pretending to be "open."
>
> The OpenBSD project has been made clear more than once how this will
> hurt Free Software in the long run. Signing NDA's ensures that Linux
> gets a working driver, sure, but the internals are indistinguishable
> from magic. It is a source code version of a blob.
I'm guessing that you did not read the followup FAQ about the program
at:
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers_faq.html
Please see the final question and answer on that page.
thanks,
greg k-h
