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John Milford wrote:
> 
>         Someone pointed me to this webpage today, and although it is
> being run and backed by the Linux camp it seems to be something that
> could be quite important to the FreeBSD effort, basically a
> certification that the manufacturer is willing to provide
> documentation on the interface to their hardware free of charge and
> without NDA or other such restictions.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/OpenHardware/
> 
>                 --John

definitly something we should support.