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From: Davi Leal <davi@leals.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: gnuherds-app-dev@nongnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Ali Gunduz" <gndz.ali@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: free tg3 ethernet driver
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:22:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810100022.21883.davi@leals.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081009225143.7999311d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-09 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08 21:53 free tg3 ethernet driver Davi Leal
2008-10-08 22:08 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-09 20:36   ` Davi Leal
2008-10-09 21:51     ` Alan Cox
2008-10-09 22:09       ` Willy Tarreau
2008-10-09 22:22       ` Davi Leal [this message]
2008-10-09  1:13 ` Chris Snook

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