Programming documentation is restricted also because the hardware is
full of bugs and like Theo said there is no errata for a lot of
hardware.

On 2/14/07, Rod Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 10:42:43, Nick ! wrote:
>   ...
> Also, please educate me: couldn't a BSD driver be created by using the
> cleanroom approach? One person reads the GPL code, writes specs,
> another implements them?   ...

And what, you get a new chunk of code that replicates misinterpretations
of the hardware specs?

An  often  quoted  open  source  adage "Many eyes make all bugs shallow"
fails  when  the  number of eyes being permitted to look at the hardware
documentation is restricted.

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