Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

[Jeff Garzik]

Jason Lunz wrote:
> jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx said:
>
> > Who brought binary drivers into this?  And when I have ever advocated 
> > binary drivers?
> >
> > ndiswrapper has one use IMHO (which was pointed out me in this 
> > thread)... to assist in reverse engineering.
>
>
> That may be your intention, but as soon as cards exist that can only be
> made to work with ndis-wrapped drivers, you can be sure that the masses
> won't wait for the reverse-engineering to be completed. So all the
> nvidia-video-type problems _will_ start showing up in a big population
> of laptops and such too.


And we will ignore such bug reports, like we ignore nVidia bug reports 
now.  I welcome choice, including the choice of users to shoot 
themselves in the foot...

	Jeff



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