Re: Keyspan Firmware fun
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:05:55PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> > 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.
Are you sure???
(1) one vender provides new well designed HW with FPGA (or what ever
field programmable hardware) and EPROM firmware with good API and spec
info with proprietary binary codes to feed-in.
(2) another provide buggy old HW with ROM firmware (No upgrade support
and no source code of firmware)
I think I take (1) over (2) even though (2) may be able to claim that
they are more open source since driver has no binary THING.
Regards,
Osamu
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