Reasons partially out of $COMPANY's control. [LWN.net]

Reasons partially out of $COMPANY's control.

Posted Oct 10, 2006 0:28 UTC (Tue) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)
In reply to: Reasons partially out of $COMPANY's control. by shapr
Parent article: Device drivers and non-disclosure agreements

I, too, would pay a premium for a truly and fully open system to which all
source was available.

But I wish to simultaneously observe that this discussion we are now
having should not even be necessary! It is downright obnoxious that
computer manufacturing has degraded to this point. Frankly, although we
hear arguments against fully open specs or drivers all the time, I think
that all of them, while possibly true in and of themselves, are even
collectively no good reason not to have open specs!

So I do think Theo is fighting the good fight. He may just be barking up
the wrong trees.

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Reasons partially out of $COMPANY's control.

Posted Oct 10, 2006 7:15 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I concur, for what it's worth. It's a very silly first-strike target,
PR-wise.

Reasons partially out of $COMPANY's control.

Posted Oct 20, 2006 3:22 UTC (Fri) by Nimbleno (guest, #41230) [Link]

First strike? Theo and the OpenBSD folks have been fighting this battle for years. And they've had some good sucesses, such as with many wireless drivers. This is hardly a first strike.

Reasons partially out of $COMPANY's control.

Posted Oct 25, 2006 23:03 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

True.

It's a very badly-chosen fiftieth-strike target, for that matter. `Hey,
let's go after a project aimed at... very poor children!'

Theo de Raadt, unsung comedic genius?