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From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Adaptec AAC raid support 
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> I'd love to have fully open stuff from all the RAID
> companies too, but I also want the users of FreeBSD to be able to use
> the resources that are out there to their full advantage and not be
> pinned down by my political beliefs on the subject.

Which is why you go onto public posting sites and slag me, instead of
calling you your buddy Doug and saying "Hey, these guys have a point,
and you really ought to sell it to Adaptec management, since you are
the guy who can make this change, as you already told Theo and others
four months previously that you were the guy that could".

But no.  Scott Long goes and slags the people who are taking a
different approach.

Scott, you do NOT stand for free software.  You only stand for
"whatever works".

At least I am consistant in standing up for Free Software, and it
has been working very well.

I've freed up TONS of chipsets.  What have you freed up lately?  You
work on RAID drivers, lots and lots of them, and you have not freed
up ONE management interface.

Why?

I don't know.  Has slagging me in public forums gotten you closer to
opening up a RAID management interface?

Nope.

It has not.  Was it fun?

ps. When are you replacing the binary Atheros driver you have with the
    free one that we have reverse engineered?   One that could be worked
    on by lots of people to make it better and better, unlike that .o
    file you ship.