From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Mar 24 11:43:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA7137B719 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:43:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05018; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:44:36 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010324144957.03d1c300@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:01:17 -0500 To: scanner@jurai.net From: Dennis Subject: Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2. Cc: isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <5.0.0.25.0.20010324142619.03a8a690@mail.etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:20 PM 03/24/2001, scanner@jurai.net wrote: >On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Dennis wrote: > > > You are dealing with a company with more lawyers than FreeBSD has > > users. it will take them the life of the product to decide what is > > proprietary and what is not. > > Whining hackers wont get Intel to change their policy. > > I would hardly consider my discussions as whining. So I can count >you on board for removing fxp from CVS then dennis? :-) You're obviously >in agreement Intel is not going to change its way's. You dont need to sign an NDA to do a driver. You just need to work a little harder. Blaming Intel because the driver sucks is a cop-out. They provide enough info to get the job done. db To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message