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Subject: Re: Linux Incompatibility List
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
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On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 17:06, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-21 16:51:57 -0400, Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
> wrote in message <20040821205157.GA9300@animx.eu.org>:
> > > Nvidia.  AFAIK all nvidia Linux drivers are either binary-only or
> > > reverse-engineered.
> > 
> > True, however, their video cards *DO* work on linux (even though it is
> > binary-only).  I have a laptop that has the chip.  Does any broadcom
> > wireless chip work on linux (ndis wrapper or that piece of junk from
> > linuxant doesn't count)
> 
> Right, binary-only drivers and/or GPLed/OSS drivers should be counted
> separately. Think about AVM's ISDN cards (very popular over here in
> Germany, but the newer products require a CAPI-only binary-only
> driver:-(
> 

Are there still vendors who release 'open source' drivers, but with
preprocessed, obfuscated source code?  If so then there should be a
category for this.

Lee