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SubjectRe: Free Linux Driver Development!
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>
> On Jan 31 2007 09:58, alan wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> On Jan 30 2007 14:00, Roland Dreier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> An uncharitable vendor might decide it's not worth publishing specs,
>>>> since the Linux guys can reverse engineer the Windows driver just as
>>>> fast anyway.
>>>
>>> And ndiswrapper gives fire to just releasing the Windows one :(
>>
>> ndiswrapper is a way to make it work "now" as opposed to "correct".
>> There is a lot that you cannot do with ndiswrapper that a proper driver
>> can.
>
> The fear is that a vendor might not open things because it works
> "reasonably enough" (for them as well as the enduser) at "this time".
> E.g. I got sis162u.inf for some usb wireless adapter, it works
> enough, but of course I am not too happy with the binary blob because
> it might have some not-so-"correct" core that could silently oops me
> away.

Of course, the vendors need to realize that such problems will be blamed
on the hardware and not on the drivers. "But I was using the Windows
drivers!"

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