Messages in this thread | | | From | Davi Leal <> | Subject | Re: free tg3 ethernet driver | Date | Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:22:21 +0200 |
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Alan Cox wrote: > Well thats good, another 1.999849 million dollars and you might get > started. > > With the best will in the world if you go and pay Broadcom zillions to > open source the firmware the only incentive you create is for them to > keep future firmware proprietary to sell to you next time around. > > If on the other hand you buy non Broadcom equipment if you feel this > way about the firmware then you create a far better economic incentive, > and at $10 a NIC its not really hard to do that.
We have added your new comments in the pledge description.
http://gnuherds.org/pledges?id=58
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