[ltp] Re: ACP modem driver comment

[William van Zwanenberg]

At 03:16 PM 1/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
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>How about giving one (some) gifted and trusted linux-coder the
>source with a NDA and releasing the resulting work "binary-only" ?
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>To my knowledge, this approach was done with the opengl/mesa drivers
>for the 3DFX's voodoo chipset.
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>In this situation, IBM can release the source-code to a (some)
>persons without violating some copyright-issues, and the
>linux-community get their drivers.
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>I think that most linux-thinkpad users would prefer a closed-source
>modem-driver over a non-existing open-source one.
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>There has been some thought given to that.

and???


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