Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933309AbXAaRza (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:55:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933317AbXAaRza (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:55:30 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59222 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933309AbXAaRz3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:55:29 -0500 Message-ID: <45C0D80D.2010404@garzik.org> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:55:25 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Roland Dreier , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <20070130191020.GF20642@kroah.com> <45BFA087.6020905@garzik.org> <20070130214759.GA12477@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 21 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jan 30 2007 14:00, Roland Dreier wrote: >> An uncharitable vendor might decide it's not worth publishing specs, >> since the Linux guys can reverse engineer the Windows driver just as >> fast anyway. > > And ndiswrapper gives fire to just releasing the Windows one :( Logically this makes sense from a user perspective, but I tend to doubt ndiswrapper is really a motivator for a vendor? One would think that vendors would rather not have a crash-y solution for their hardware. Jeff - 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/