Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 03:09:49 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up! Message-ID: <20000228030949.A73905@rohrbach.de>
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ok guys, here's just a little idea on how to get the hardware manufacturer guys a little bit more responsive (in fact, i got somehow "inspired" by the alsa sound project guys because they got something similar)... let's put up a list of hardware manufacturers that do not answer our mails, that do not hear our pleas for driver development, that simply do not react. then we might publish a link to this thing on the freebsd.org homepage and write some cutey little press release on that to zdnet and daemonnews and other news sites. maybe we got some more responsiveness then. i'm tired of write lots of emails just to get some details or techspecs of chipsets and pieces of peripheral hardware sounding like "i am tiny, you are big, please gimme documentation and dont sue me for using it". jordan: how far did you come with the idea of having some legal stuff running over the .org when it comes to nda crap? you told us that you would investigate the possibilites of having nda's signed by officials from freebsd inc., since this would also be a strong point for getting more explicit hardware docu... okay, kill me with your discussion thread! i would have some nice database interface up and running for the blacklist stuff in about one week (cebit is putting quite a sysload on me)... /k -- > May the source be with you! http://www.webmonster.de http://www.apache.de http://www.splatterworld.de (NIC-HDL KR433/KR11-RIPE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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