On 6/13/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's policy
>with respect to releasing documentation to the general public. That
>discussion lead to a great deal of uninformed speculation and
>unflattering statement's about Hifn's unfriendliness towards the open
>source community. I would like to set the record straight.
>
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I know that our hifn driver has some problems. But because I cannot
get data sheets without giving you private information, I will not
spend even one moment more of my time to improve support for your
products. Jason and I spent a lot of time writing that code in the
past, but because your policies are privacy invasive towards us, and
thus completely thankless for the sales that we have given you in the
past -- we will not spend any more time on your crummy products.
And if you continue baiting me, I will delete the driver from our
source tree.
I stand by my statement that HIFN is not open.
I don't use crypto accelerators, and none of this discussion applies
to me, so this is just noise... but I have to say this: this is
_AWESOME_. The project has not only scared the execs at this
corporation, now they are being torn to pieces by their previous
customers. I especially like Breen's response. A lot of other
communities would just be excited to be noticed, but not you guys. I
am not an OpenBSDer because I've been burned (not enough experience
for that) but because I recognized the philosophy as the only one that
is going to save humanity from itself.
Now, Hank Cohen, please come back and respond to some of these
replies. Stand up for your tribe. For the ones you missed, here's the
full thread (hosted somewhere that provides information for free,
perhaps you could learn from them):
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115017551512719&w=2
-Nick
