Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Jason Lunz <> | Subject | Re: Announce: ndiswrapper | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:47:07 +0000 (UTC) |
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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.
Jason
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