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SubjectRe: Announce: ndiswrapper
Jason Lunz wrote:
> jgarzik@pobox.com said:
>
>>Who brought binary drivers into this? And when I have ever advocated
>>binary drivers?
>>
>>ndiswrapper has one use IMHO (which was pointed out me in this
>>thread)... to assist in reverse engineering.
>
>
> That may be your intention, but as soon as cards exist that can only be
> made to work with ndis-wrapped drivers, you can be sure that the masses
> won't wait for the reverse-engineering to be completed. So all the
> nvidia-video-type problems _will_ start showing up in a big population
> of laptops and such too.


And we will ignore such bug reports, like we ignore nVidia bug reports
now. I welcome choice, including the choice of users to shoot
themselves in the foot...

Jeff



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