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[Russell Jones <russell.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> Nor is anybody asking them to. 
> All they need to do is put their "secrets" on the chips and keep their
> drivers free of patented or secret code.  
>
> The insistence on moving most of their copyrighted/patented property
> indo binary driver blobs is what gets them in trouble.
>   
Yet few people object (that I've heard) to copyright firmware being 
uploaded to devices, e.g. in Hauppage's  dec-2000t. How is this 
different? I wonder what stops nv/ati from providing a GPL driver that 
just does an upload of copyright/patented firmware (freely available for 
download) providing the required APIs? Perhaps the issues are more 
complex than just that. Or perhaps there is an effort to get the OSS 
community to refuse superior technology on the basis of "principle" when 
none has been violated in any exceptional way?
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