Depending on what you're reverse engineering, it may also be illegal.
However, you should be able to apply dirty/clean room techniques to
it to achieve the same effect.
Also, wouldn't this be anti-competitive practice? They're preventing
OS vendors who want to ship source from being able to support the
hardware needed to retain market share. Maybe one of them will sue,
be it RedHat, Caldera, BSDI or whoever...
The other option would be for a company (or individual) to sign the
NDA, develop the driver and make it available as a binary only kernel
module. Not ideal, I know, but it would at least be one solution.
Wasn't something like this done for AFS support?
Tet
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