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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters?
To: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 13:41:48 -0500 (GMT-0500)
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In-Reply-To: <199504170522.OAA13653@remington.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> from "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" at Apr 17, 95 02:22:19 pm
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> I heard that the president of Xircom hates free software by
> philosophycal reasons.  They protect device driver from
> reverse-engineering by encrypting the drivers, and I heard that they
			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
But how ? IMO the Unix driver is an object file that can't be encrypted
itself and probably can't contain the encrypted part decryptable
by xxinit().

> won't give us any hardware information without exclusive contracts.

Do they have a driver for SCO ? Decompiling of SCO drivers isn't very
difficult because SCO's optimizer is bad (and often isn't used at all)
and disassembler is included in the Development System.


		Serge Babkin

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