From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 26 15: 4: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from prez.buf.servtech.com (prez.buf.servtech.com [204.181.2.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A263937B9CE for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikeride@prez.org) Received: from [216.70.66.33] (ppp-284.tnt-1.roc.smartworld.net [216.70.66.33]) by prez.buf.servtech.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00839; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:19:51 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: mikeride@204.181.2.103 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000426130511.A6113@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20000425140001.00bf1100@localhost> <20000426111313.D1245@cichlids.cichlids.com> <3906C4C4.22930895@cheqnet.net> <20000426130511.A6113@cichlids.cichlids.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:18:58 -0400 To: Alexander Langer , Roger Walkup From: "Michael G. Schabert" Subject: Re: [linux-usb] Anti-NDA petition Cc: Alan Cox , linux-usb@suse.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, advocacy@openbsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >BTW: I'm also satisfied with binary-only drivers, but as read in this >thread, some guys would not be satisfied with this, too, what I myself >can't understand. > >Linux, FreeBSD and I believe the other BSDs, too, have invested much >work in a reliable kernel-module framework, which is perfect for >third-party drivers. > >But binary-only or open-source, the question was to convince Phillips >(and other vendors), that the OS-community is big enough to invest in >OS-OSs (hehe, OpenSource-Operating-Systems :-)), _how_ they do it is >another question. I think that the gist of reasoning, however, is that most companies don't want to invest resources in making drivers for every OS out there, which is what would be necessary in order for them to distribute binary drivers. The ppl here don't care if the company provides anything at all, as long as they provided a way to create the drivers from within NetBSD. We want the manufacturer to provide specs and/or docs. That way, any OS or OS revision/flavor can make its own drivers at no expense to the company. This would open up the hardware to whole new uses that the manufacturer had never even dreamt of. The only reason not to would be to protect proprietary information. I hardly consider the method of transmitting video through USB to be top secret proprietary info. Just my thoughts, Mike Bikers don't *DO* taglines. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message