On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:39:36AM +0100, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote:

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> 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