Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jul 2008 22:10:15 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" |
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> It seems your employer is telling you to work on this in order to sort > out some perceived legal issue. And that's the only reason you're > investing any effort into this.
To point out the blindingly obvious
1. - David has had *two* different employers while working on this project
2. - I think you could reasonably assume that if your employers legal team had reached a specific conclusion that there was a compliance issue they would have directed you to do something about it as well, not operated a mysterious conspiracy (in conjunction one assumes with David's current employer) to change it.
And it's worth remembering that the 'lunatic fringe' you seem to be trying to associate David with don't care about the firmware changes because their view is that you shouldn't even have drivers for such hardware as it cannot be used in a free way (just as they argue not to write java without free interpreters). [1]
Alan [1] No I don't know where they get their free x86 engine from either ;)
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