Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:12:08 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD-advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Openhardware.org Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511120257.699E-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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I just received a reply from OpenHardware.org. It is included at the end of this message. We get a tiny, tiny bit of exposure here http://www.openhardware.org/. (I said tiny) This organization would love to have OEMs get in touch with them. If you work for a company that might be coaxed into releasing driver source code, get in touch with these folks. This can only help FreeBSD and free software in general. If you do send an OEM there way, make sure they know that the FreeBSD community is helping them out. This can only increase the esteem with which people regard FreeBSD. Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 20:38:09 +0200 (GMT+0200) From: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Supports Your Endeavors [Sorry for the late reply, I just come back from a 2 week vacation ;) ] On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > FreeBSD, Inc would like to register their support for the Open Hardware > Certification Program. Thanx for your support; I've added "FreeBSD, Inc" to the list of the supporting corps. > The availability of information for hardware drivers is an important issue > to all software companies that do not enjoy the widespread OEM support > that certain commercial companies enjoy. > > Your website is geared toward providing info to OEMs. Please send any > pertinent information that a supporting software organization may need. For now we mostly need new devices to be registered. We currently have only 4, and my guess is we need to have at least a dozain to reach the critical mass and start to gain interest from the other hardware manufacturers. We initially (& naively) relied on hardware manufacturers to come & register. It didn't work too well so far, so I'm planning on making a list of manufacturers which are known to be "Free Software Friendly" (ie: which released without requiring any NDA informations about their devices to various Linux, *BSD, etc developers) and to contact them directly. As for the information that software developers can obtain from the OpenHardware site, on each product page there is a link to a complete documentation as well as a sample device driver implementation. > Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. > Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ BTW, I've had a look on the Project Staff's page on www.freebsd.org, but couldn't find a reference to your name. Did I overlooked it? Cordialement, -- - Vincent RENARDIAS vincent@{waw.com,pipo.com,debian.org} - - Debian/GNU Linux: Pipo: WAW: - - http://www.fr.debian.org http://www.pipo.com http://www.waw.com - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "La fonctionnalite Son Visuel vous delivre des avertissements visuels." - - [Message durant l'installation de Windows95]:wq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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