On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:23:41PM +1000, Sam Johnston wrote: > certainly... host adapters, hard drives, motherboards, video cards, storage > devices, digital cameras, etc. all have firmware that most likely contains a > lot of juicy information about the hardware that vendors may want to keep > secret.
They are sadly mistaken if they think that releasing binary-only firmware will keep these secrets. > rather than whinge about the licenses and turn away vendors who are trying > to be useful, why not solve the problem? and no, forcing hardware vendors to > provide open source code is not the answer - most will probably just > withdraw support, saving it for some other alternative, less picky operating > system (like windows). By the same token, we can buy hardware from more accommodating vendors. Richard Braakman
