On Wed, 03 May 2006 19:33:48 +0100, Dieter <netbsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
wrote:

> > All open source projects should join forces indeed, but NOT to go and
> > beg for closed-source binary device drivers but to put pressure on ven-
> > dors to release proper documentation for their hardware!
> >
> > Sadly, all projects (except OpenBSD) have now developed a hot love
> > affair with closed-source drivers. This will make it harder and harder
> > in the future to get vendors to release documentation.
> 
> Joerg is absolutely right.
> 
> Binary drivers are NOT a good thing.  They have bugs, and without
> source how are you going to fix them?
> 
> We NEED documentation explaining how the hardware works.
> 
> One solution:
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/03/19/0001.html
> 
	"I can call spirits from the vasty deep."

	"Why so can I, or so can any man; but will they come when you do
	call for them?"

			--Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I

In other words, I agree with you in principle, but we still have to live
with reality.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb