Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270489AbTHQSvL (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:51:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270497AbTHQSvL (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:51:11 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:7111 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270489AbTHQSvH (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:51:07 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Rychter Subject: Re: Centrino support Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 12:58:35 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1060972810.29086.8.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> <3F3D469B.2020507@yahoo.com> <20030816123410.56cbb550.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Spammers-Please: blackholeme@rychter.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ykja1KFwUzkUW32w81khFAiachs= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2267 Lines: 54 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> "Stephan" =3D=3D Stephan von Krawczynski : Stephan> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:46:19 -0400 Stephan> Brandon Stewart wrote: >> I thought that this line of argument was due to FCC >> regulations. That is, software settings would allow the hardware to >> violate frequency or strength-of-signal limitations set by >> government regulations. This is only from memory, so feel free to >> correct. Stephan> I think I have read in an earlier thread something the like. Stephan> But I cannot understand how this can be logically linked to Stephan> releasing docs. If all companies would follow this thought Stephan> e.g. Siemens would never have released the docs for ISDN Stephan> chipsets and therefore no ISDN drivers would be in the Stephan> kernel. I'd rather say someone with money is afraid ... Yes, that sounds rather ridiculous. Sooner or later someone is going to reverse-engineer the thing, so not releasing drivers or specs just delays this moment. If there's a manager at Intel that thinks this way, he doesn't understand much about security. [...] Stephan> Some political explosives are in this thread ... Politically, this sounds to me like an antitrust case against Intel and Microsoft handed on a platter. A major hardware manufacturer releases information and software only to one dominating software company, while locking out the others. Unfortunately, we live in a world of compromises. If I were RedHat, I'd stay real quiet and play nice in order to get Intel's cooperation on servers (which brings revenue) instead of fighting for laptops (which is a niche market for Linux, in a chicken-and-egg sort of way). It's rather sad. =2D-J. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/PozxLth4/7/QhDoRAt6BAJ4wqpFRlFRjGsVoQrirgOJNmz+z9QCeOSgz +nKwQfMaO5azoT7hcDPg31E= =GOCA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/