From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 4 22:06:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24294 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 22:06:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (root@jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA24270 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 22:06:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id WAA17850 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 22:06:34 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id WAA30227 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 22:06:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 22:05:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: FreeBSD-advocacy Subject: Open Hardware Certification Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://www.openhardware.org/ This organization's goals are in tune with that of free software. Please keep them in mind when you go about your daily advocating. Every manufacturer that subscribes to the principles of Open Hardware is helping free OSes to better support existing hardware. This will go far toward advancing the user base of FreeBSD. This group is in its infancy. It seems they only got started in August of last year. Hopefully, with support of users, they can become influential enough that many, many OEMs will make driver source and other documents freely available. (Side note: I have contacted them but they have not returned my message yet.) Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message