<snip> > I asked Guy Ellis, if Traverse would consider donating some ADSL cards > to OpenBSD developers in exchange for them helping to develop a decent > OpenBSD driver from the beta one. His response is below - > > >> In principle I am happy to run with this. However the main problem > is that the purists will not accept a driver that isn't 100% Open > Source. Since the firmware and Globespan proprietary routines are in a > library they will probably tell you to go away. If not let me know. > > > Is it truly the case that you will tell them to go away? and if so do <snip>
IMHO only if they do like Intel did. You can take a look at /etc/firmware and check that those are binary-only firmwares, but have free distribution rights granted to OpenBSD and others. If a firmware is mandatory, one can have a free-well-written driver and plug in on it a bad licensed firmware, but that will not make anything better, think again about what Intel did and tell this story to the Traverse guys. -- Eduardo Alvarenga
