Re: Linux kernel rant

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 13:02:39 EST


On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:42:31PM +1100, James Buchanan wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 04:26 am, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > Don't be naive, BSD people have to sign NDA's too if they want to
> > have decent drivers for cheap hardware.
>
> I'm not - Theo De Raadt refuses to sign them.

OpenBSD contains drivers _obviously_ written under NDA, just like every
other free BSD. Theo probably imported these drivers from FreeBSD,
I would guess.

I pay attention to net drivers in all the BSD OS's, so if you know net
drivers and their vendors, these things are obvious ;-)

        Jeff

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