linux-kernel - Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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Date:	Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:55:25 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
CC:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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



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