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>You know what I think hurts us more than anything? You know what >probably keeps companies from writing drivers or releasing specs? It's >because they know some non-paid kernel hackers out there will eventually >reverse engineer it and write the drivers for them. Free development, >and they didn't even have to release their precious specs. I don't get them either. If reverse-engineering will release their precious trade secrets they wanted to protect by making the thing closed, they could have just asked someone to write a linux driver for free if they don't have the guts to actually pay qualified/experienced developers. -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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