From: Davi Leal <davi@leals.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: free tg3 ethernet driver
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:22:21 +0200
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       "Ali Gunduz" <gndz.ali@gmail.com>
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Well thats good, another 1.999849 million dollars and you might get
> started.
>
> With the best will in the world if you go and pay Broadcom zillions to
> open source the firmware the only incentive you create is for them to
> keep future firmware proprietary to sell to you next time around.
>
> If on the other hand you buy non Broadcom equipment if you feel this
> way about the firmware then you create a far better economic incentive,
> and at $10 a NIC its not really hard to do that.
 
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