Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:36:14 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Announce: ndiswrapper |
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Jason Lunz wrote: > jgarzik@pobox.com said: > >>Who brought binary drivers into this? And when I have ever advocated >>binary drivers? >> >>ndiswrapper has one use IMHO (which was pointed out me in this >>thread)... to assist in reverse engineering. > > > That may be your intention, but as soon as cards exist that can only be > made to work with ndis-wrapped drivers, you can be sure that the masses > won't wait for the reverse-engineering to be completed. So all the > nvidia-video-type problems _will_ start showing up in a big population > of laptops and such too.
And we will ignore such bug reports, like we ignore nVidia bug reports now. I welcome choice, including the choice of users to shoot themselves in the foot...
Jeff
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