[lugm.org] the importance of hardware documentation

[selven]

Am not against NDA, simply because in the short run this may be bad, but in
the long run, better hardware support means, hardware manufacturers would
have to have support free software whether they want it or not, because
this is what the market will want.

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Shaw <daniel.shaw at point-oh.net>wrote:

> On 4 January 2012 11:10, Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Linux developers are very open to signing NDAs just to get hardware
> support:
> > From http://lwn.net/Articles/203562/
>
> > This is exactly what has happened with SiS ! Sorry, you're terribly
> mistaken
> > here.
>
> No, you misunderstood me. I completely agree that NDAs are bad in
> exactly the way you mention. My point is that although it's common
> (far too common) it's not EVERY vendor. There are pleasant exceptions.
>
> Another great example of a very problematic hardware vendor is
> Broadcom (mentioned in your lwn link).  Compare this with Intel. So my
> point is that next time you buys a laptop, pick the one that has intel
> wifi, not broadcom and next time you pick a server get the one with
> Intel NICs, not broadcom.
>
> I'm not disagreeing with your rant - I am offering one possible course
> of action, which is: vote with your wallet.
>
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