From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Sep  1 01:16:37 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9511F16A4E1
	for <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>; Fri,  1 Sep 2006 01:16:37 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com)
Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.234])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F369943D46
	for <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>; Fri,  1 Sep 2006 01:16:36 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com)
Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 68so317030wri
	for <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:16:36 -0700 (PDT)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references;
	b=dSsiVL9f+RAtiM4qBopmg72tbl6iIJFR7/IfI49ow7NPNLR3tiWig+YbgyA6pPs2sjwZKWzlEArNUrXwaOyfCVyPYP56uDhhea85LK+OLNtsNy7QtFpboRaS2E9yciDTx34nrFcIdk2/pW15QhB17PY4NVhj5sJxB4l8KBJ1naM=
Received: by 10.90.116.6 with SMTP id o6mr371710agc;
	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:16:36 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.90.98.12 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:16:35 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <8a0028260608311816w3e52d0afg90a7a16a3da04fa8@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 02:16:35 +0100
From: "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <8a0028260608311655o7d34977cg2ad4465c4618781a@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <20060830232723.GU10101@multics.mit.edu>
	<c6d37fe0608310259k12fe629eve59e59042fcfdb4c@mail.gmail.com>
	<Pine.BSM.4.64L.0608311312190.8977@odem.66h.42h.de>
	<950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com>
	<20060831110112.J82634@hub.org>
	<f34ca13c0608310843p4e28b57eoec2f60737c034ddb@mail.gmail.com>
	<20060831184715.B82634@hub.org>
	<20060831223543.GC15085@jp.animata.net>
	<20060831195609.P82634@hub.org>
	<8a0028260608311655o7d34977cg2ad4465c4618781a@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5
Cc: misc@openbsd.org, Harpalus a Como <harpalus.como@gmail.com>,
	Pedro Martelletto <pedro@ambientworks.net>,
	"Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>,
	Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>, netbsd-users@netbsd.org,
	miros-discuss@mirbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD
X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Non technical items related to the community
	<freebsd-chat.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat>,
	<mailto:freebsd-chat-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-chat-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat>,
	<mailto:freebsd-chat-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:16:37 -0000

On 01/09/06, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 01/09/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >  so, should I then switch to Linux because they do welcome
> > 'vendor written drivers'?
>
>
> If by 'vendor-written drivers' you mean binary-only drivers, then no, the
> linux kernel developers emphatically do not accept them. They would much
> prefer that all vendors release open source drivers, since (amongst other
> things) if they do, that means they (the LKD's) will be responsible for
> making sure that when the device driver ABI changes, all open-source drivers
> are rewritten and recompiled to work with that version of the kernel.
>

Of course, that should be "API"

Jeff.