Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751561AbWLXNb7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:31:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751520AbWLXNb6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:31:58 -0500 Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.190]:27159 "EHLO mo-p07-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751483AbWLXNb6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:31:58 -0500 Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:31:54 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Draxinger Organization: DARKSTARgames To: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Binary Drivers User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200612240646.kBO6knVT030879@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200612240646.kBO6knVT030879@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1720200.7bahuTXZQW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200612241434.39307.wdraxinger@darkstargames.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1620 Lines: 49 --nextPart1720200.7bahuTXZQW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Sonntag, 24. Dezember 2006 07:46 schrieb Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu: > Are they allowed to sell a car that incorporates a computer that > uses a trade-secret algorithm for controlling the fuel injection to > get 20 more horsepower and 5% better mileage? That would be a propritary fuel injection driver then. What we want however is access to the documentation, the=20 specifications, that allows us to develop a very own driver,=20 independently from the propritary one. We don't want source code or=20 anything. Of course if the hardware manufactor supplies us with=20 source code, that's great. Probably any customly written driver will be suboptimal in the first=20 place, but OTOH there are so many skilled people around in the OSS=20 scene, that such a driver would surely soon catch up, if not even=20 surpass the propritary one. Happy holydays Wolfgang Draxinger =2D-=20 "sooner or later we'll reverse engineer you." --nextPart1720200.7bahuTXZQW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFjoHvBfWmRR/TvT4RAqbzAKDwOJRhcNrP06vAtlOAq3+sFz8AxQCgynXk WjxcggCVHNLHLMJ63f7Dq8o= =1NoN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1720200.7bahuTXZQW-- - 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/