Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:24:25 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Jos=E9_M=2E_Fandi=F1o=22?= <freebsd4@fadesa.es> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atheros chips dangerous? Message-ID: <38802.1155288265@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:03:19 %2B0200." <44DC47D7.2050908@fadesa.es>
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In message <44DC47D7.2050908@fadesa.es>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Jos=E9_M=2E_Fandi=F1 o=22?= writes: >> Sam compiled those binaries, he has the source code. >> > And it is a matter of trust. > >from the phk's comments I deduce that it was a NDA between Atheros >and FreeBSD. The NDA is between Atheros and Sam Leffler. >In my opinion the difference is that with NDA you place trust in >a few persons (the ones with the code), whilst with open source >drivers the code can be reviewed by all people with enough >knowledge about the subject and since peer review is an important >concept in FOSS quality (and security) it would be desirable >to have free code. While that is certainly true, I also feel that the fact that Atheros has actively tried to work with the FOSS people to get a good driver should be credited to them. Other vendors have been totally impossible to work with. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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