Re: Keyspan Firmware fun
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:23:41PM +1000, Sam Johnston wrote:
> certainly... host adapters, hard drives, motherboards, video cards, storage
> devices, digital cameras, etc. all have firmware that most likely contains a
> lot of juicy information about the hardware that vendors may want to keep
> secret.
They are sadly mistaken if they think that releasing binary-only
firmware will keep these secrets.
> rather than whinge about the licenses and turn away vendors who are trying
> to be useful, why not solve the problem? and no, forcing hardware vendors to
> provide open source code is not the answer - most will probably just
> withdraw support, saving it for some other alternative, less picky operating
> system (like windows).
By the same token, we can buy hardware from more accommodating vendors.
Richard Braakman
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