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SubjectRe: Announce: ndiswrapper


William Lee Irwin III wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:49:05PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>I'm all for open specs, but in reality that doesn't always happen.
>>(out of interest, are there any OS 3d drivers for any current cards?)
>>I know what you mean, but I would find nvidia more at fault for not
>>providing power management than no OS drivers.
>>
>
>The rationales for closed specs are bogus, so I have zero sympathy.
>It's generally a braindead encoding for commands to carry out well-
>understood operations. There is nothing to hide, except, of course,
>the ability to use the hardware.
>

Well OK, but whether the manufacturers are bad or good, there will be
some that aren't going to release specs or open source drivers. I think
it is *mostly* positive that the Linux kernel allows them to support
Linux though binary drivers.

Note, I'm talking about the kernel. We are all agreed that closed specs
are a bad move by manufacturers.

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