[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Searching OpenBSD mailing list archives for mails matching both keywords >firmware and source found nothing. Are you sure it's in there? Well, probably there is a reason if you have not found anything by looking for "source"... With a two minutes google search of "de Raadt firmware" I have found:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html De Raadt said that when a request was made to a vendor to 'open' their firmware, "it just means we want clear distribution/redistribution rights. We don't need the 'source code' to their firmware. There are no intellectual property concerns." (I do not understand why he received an award from FSF for this, BTW.) And http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550: Jeremy Andrews: What is it about binary firmware that you're willing to ship it, versus binary blobs? How can you trust the firmware binary to do what it should do? And what if the firmware has a bug? Theo de Raadt: [...] But in the end, if we wish to support any such devices, we must be practical. We must accept the risk that there is a flaw in the firmware. [...] Of course, also note that we don't want to become Hermes (the architecture of the Lucent/Prism/Symbol chip) assembly language programmers... we have more than enough to do. Just a specific example. Please, people, don't load us up with more tasks ;) -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
