Re: free tg3 ethernet driver

From: Davi Leal
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 18:22:40 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
> Well thats good, another 1.999849 million dollars and you might get
> started.
>
> With the best will in the world if you go and pay Broadcom zillions to
> open source the firmware the only incentive you create is for them to
> keep future firmware proprietary to sell to you next time around.
>
> If on the other hand you buy non Broadcom equipment if you feel this
> way about the firmware then you create a far better economic incentive,
> and at $10 a NIC its not really hard to do that.

We have added your new comments in the pledge description.

http://gnuherds.org/pledges?id=58
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