From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: jamesbuch@iprimus.com.au
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@imladris.surriel.com>,
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux kernel rant
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:53:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E563D53.8020102@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200302211725.58197.jamesbuch@iprimus.com.au
James Buchanan wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:19 am, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
>>No IDE disks or modern SCSI controllers in your machine ?
>>
>
> The ones I use are not forbidden to be seen by me, written under an
> NDA or otherwise. No, no modern SCSI controllers.
I think what you're missing is that many drivers are *written* under an
NDA but then the resulting code is released under an open license.
You're free to use the resulting driver, but the writer can't talk about
exactly how it works.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-21 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-21 4:51 Linux kernel rant James Buchanan
2003-02-20 17:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-20 17:26 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-02-21 5:42 ` James Buchanan
2003-02-20 17:45 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-02-21 5:54 ` James Buchanan
2003-02-20 18:15 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-02-21 6:23 ` James Buchanan
2003-02-20 18:20 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-21 6:24 ` James Buchanan
2003-02-20 17:54 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-21 6:01 ` James Buchanan
2003-02-20 18:09 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-21 6:17 ` James Buchanan
2003-02-20 18:19 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-20 18:20 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-02-21 6:25 ` James Buchanan
2003-02-21 14:53 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-02-21 15:34 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-20 18:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-21 6:29 ` James Buchanan
2003-02-20 18:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-21 6:21 ` James Buchanan
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