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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> Doesn't Intel, AMD, SUN, to mention a few, release specifications for their processors? Why are they still in business then? And why isn't Tom, Dick and Harry cloning their processors?
Why stop at register specification, how about asking for chip masks and verilog sims to be opened out. I'm sure you've heard that the Chinese were able to clone a GM car - cloning chips would be absolutely no problem for them at all.