linux-kernel - Re: free tg3 ethernet driver

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Message-Id: <200810100022.21883.davi@leals.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:22:21 +0200
From:	Davi Leal <davi@...ls.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	gnuherds-app-dev@...gnu.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Ali Gunduz" <gndz.ali@...il.com>
Subject: Re: free tg3 ethernet driver

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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