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Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> * No binary blob drivers.

This is one that I don't necessarily agree with ... if Adaptec came out 
with a *supported* iir driver, but it was binary only, I'd be happy with 
that ... I just want to know that if I *have* a problem with a piece of 
hardware, that I can get support for it ...

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