Re: Re: Fwd: RE: To ESS Tech Support

["P. Christeas" <p_christ@hol.gr>]

> Warren Turkal <wturkal@cbu.edu> writes:
> > Another message from the ESS people. If some other people could take
> > the time to request this info from ESS also, maybe they would be
> > more forthcoming with the info.
>
> Tell them you want the complete specs for the chip, and are willing to
> sign an NDA.  That might help.

That may not be accurate. If you're writing a driver for linux, you most 
probably want to publish it under GPL, which definitely conflicts with the 
NDA. The NDA should be about the chip only, not the driver.

The real case you should stick at (the one for any such case) is that nobody 
could actually use the linux driver without owning the product, for which 
we've paid. Tell them that by supporting (it's so easy for them) linux, they 
get themselves out of the "non-desirable" hardware list. We (linux users) 
have several lists with hw and companies we should avoid. ESS is one of them.



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