Re: Linux kernel rant

[Chris Friesen]

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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