I totally understand. The problem is that open sourcing existing proprietary code requires work, specifically legal work. Given our priorities and resources, it's difficult to justify spending time and money on old code, but I'll ask......
Rich Teer wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Stephen Harpster wrote: > > >> One of the main benefits of open source is to encourage folks to develop >> support for obscure or obsolete equipment. So yes, we strongly encourage the >> community to port older drivers to X.org. If you want to include those in >> opensolaris.org, that's relatively easy to do as well. We, Sun, are not >> opposed to that at all. >> > > Agreed, although in some instances, this community-driven approach is > somewhat hampered by the lack of open source code for those older > devices (cg6 being about the only exception). > > I guess the drivers could be reverse engineered, but the actual source > code would be a much better starting point! > > -- Stephen Harpster Director, Open Source Software Sun Microsystems, Inc.
