Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 19th Mar 2005 05:03 UTC
With the recent push from OpenBSD to open firmwares to redistribution as well as obtaining new documentation for several wireless chipsets it would seem OpenBSD is pushing for other areas to open up as well.
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even if he may be a difficult person. He seems to be the only one out there that has principles.
If a device is not acceptable using because it offers no documentation to work it under ANY OS, then the *only* thing that's right to do is to not use it.
Linux in contrast try to get everything to work on it, and they end up with lots of badly-written, half-documented drivers, and lots of binary-only crap. The solution is to avoid non-standard crap that doesn't work. I will never buy a Lexmark printer or a D-Link device again for that reason. If everyone followed their principles, companies would be forced to comply with that.