From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 29 14:45:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499BE16A422 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:45:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adam@thegeeklord.com) Received: from spunkymail-a8.dreamhost.com (mailbigip.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C86E43D60 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:45:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adam@thegeeklord.com) Received: from [10.41.48.37] (fw-ext.alphatech.com [198.112.236.6]) by spunkymail-a8.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA6810AD2B for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:45:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <442A9DA0.9060703@thegeeklord.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:45:52 -0500 From: Adam Stroud User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: "Blob" and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:45:58 -0000 I have been using both Open and Free BSD for a few years. Here is a Quick question about FreeBSD and the use of third party closed source binary drivers (known as "blob" to the OpenBSD community). I was just doing some reading on the OpenBSD website about their views on third closed source drivers (they are completely against them). Are the FreeBSD developers/community also against the use of closed drivers? Are these type of drivers currently being used in FreeBSD? Any comments/pointers to relevant information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks A