On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 06:34:03PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > As ironic as it may seem, with today being the long anticipated release > of the very first working decompiler, the world of open source drivers > is going to get very interesting in the near future. In a few hours, > possibly days, after I've installed, read the docs and got a feel for > this thing, I could easily build a source code representation from the > vendor released Atheros binary windows drivers. Yep, all of the vendor > secret sauce and all of the vendor work-arounds for silicon bugs will > be sitting right in front of me to read...
I advise against using it, as it will create an extremely muddy legal scenario over anything you write related to the code produced by that decompiler. I wish it wasn't so, but then I wished there were no proprietary drivers either :) > Rui, you're a bright guy and you've made an admirable attempt to posit > your views as well as support them with your reasoning but it's really > time to stop. I hope we can agree to disagree on a few things and still > go have a beer as friends one of these days. Even those who resort to insults can hope that from me, I don't dwell in the past, so you, who've been most polite of all, don't have anything to worry :) Rui -- You are what you see. Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 40th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
