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The code is the documentation oftenThe code is the documentation oftenPosted Oct 12, 2006 6:59 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)In reply to: The code is the documentation often by bignose Parent article: Device drivers and non-disclosure agreements
and guess what... Intel (one of the attacked parties here) does provide drivers for just about anything under open source Licenses....
also you "and they must wear the consequences" sentence starts to smell like we open source people have real power other than "your device is not supported"; guess what, we don't. It's not a small power, given the market size of open source today (esp Linux) in the server world, but in the desktop world... that power is near zero unfortunately.
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The code is the documentation often Posted Oct 17, 2006 4:51 UTC (Tue) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link] > also you "and they must wear the consequences" sentence starts to smell> like we open source people have real power other than "your device is > not supported"; guess what, we don't.
That seems like power enough. Linux is the kernel with the most hardware support, ever, out of the box. Customers with lots of money are realising this.
If the hardware vendors want in on that, consistently and with a minimum of maintenance costs, they need to play by the rules. The rules say that proprietary drivers in the kernel are illegal, unworkable, and unethical.
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html
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