Free Linux Driver Development!

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Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 3:39 am

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.

It now became clear you also don't give a damn about freedom.

Well done, Greg.

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Free Linux Driver Development!, Stephan A. Rickauer, (Wed Feb 14, 3:39 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Greg KH, (Wed Feb 14, 3:50 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development! , Theo de Raadt, (Wed Feb 14, 5:51 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Stephan A. Rickauer, (Wed Feb 14, 5:06 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Artur Grabowski, (Wed Feb 14, 6:07 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Han Boetes, (Wed Feb 14, 7:45 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Artur Grabowski, (Wed Feb 14, 10:40 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Han Boetes, (Wed Feb 14, 11:19 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Jeff Rollin, (Wed Feb 14, 8:18 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Darren Spruell, (Wed Feb 14, 11:18 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Marc Ravensbergen, (Wed Feb 14, 2:48 pm)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Jack J. Woehr, (Wed Feb 14, 3:59 pm)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Darren Spruell, (Wed Feb 14, 4:29 pm)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Jack J. Woehr, (Wed Feb 14, 4:34 pm)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Martin Schröder, (Wed Feb 14, 8:51 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Paul de Weerd, (Wed Feb 14, 8:45 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, mickey, (Wed Feb 14, 8:58 am)
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Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Mic J, (Wed Feb 14, 11:05 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Han Boetes, (Wed Feb 14, 10:06 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Greg KH, (Wed Feb 14, 5:42 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Matthew R. Dempsky, (Wed Feb 14, 11:37 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Han Boetes, (Wed Feb 14, 11:35 am)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, Marco Peereboom, (Wed Feb 14, 11:02 am)