Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

Posted Mar 1, 2021 20:43 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with by anholt
Parent article: Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

> [1] I've stooped as low as "run closed source simulators as part of otherwise pure open source driver development" and "hold unreleased-hardware driver code behind closed doors for up to a year before releasing under the MIT license",

If you're not a Free Software Fanatic, why not? And even then, when you look at the RMS printer story, what you did should be perfectly okay!

> and I once got burned by a vendor who never let us release our few thousand lines of work we did before we caught on that the project was doomed. So, not as pure as the more pure people I know, who incidentally are also employed full time in free software.

Which is when you realise the NDA should have said "while the product is in pre-release development", not "until the product is released".

Cheers,
Wol