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To: Greg KH <greg@...>
Cc: Stephan A. Rickauer <stephan.rickauer@...>, <misc@...>
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 5:51 am

> I'm guessing that you did not read the followup FAQ about the program

It ia a fucking farce.

You are trying to make sure that maintainers of code -- ie. any
random joe who wants to improve the code in the future -- has LESS
ACCESS to docs later on because someone signed an NDA to write it
in the first place.

You are making a very big mistake.

I have been fighting against this for nearly a decade.

I don't know what you signed an NDA for in the past, but I can ASSURE
YOU THAT OTHER PEOPLE WITHOUT THE DOCS CANNOT FIX THE BUGS IN THOSE
DRIVERS SO THEY SUCK MORE THAN DRIVERS WRITTEN WITH FULLY OPEN DOCS.

PERIOD.

You cannot FAQ that problem out of existance.


It is people like you who are closed.
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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)
Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, , (Wed Feb 14, 10:45 am)
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)
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