> > But more and more of these Blob's are making it into FreeBSD all the > > time. The Nvidia driver (though now they are using our nvidia driver, > > I just wonder what happens if every commercial manufacturer starts requiring a > blob? Will OpenBSD stop existing? Or will you adapt a pro-blob policy? Or > will > someone pop up and design a free hardware design for that product category?
If it wasn't for a few specific developers in the pro-Blob FreeBSD community accepting these NDA's this battle would have been over a long time ago. By that I mean we'd be back to the way things were in 1987, when all hardware documentation was freely spread by vendors to whoever wanted it. > > and they have a nvidia employee on their team who commits things to > > that driver without talking to anyone). And the same thing is > > happening to lots of other drivers in FreeBSD. FreeBSD apparently has > > a signed agreement with Nvidia over the accelerated video driver, and > > So you have absolutely no signed NDA agreements? Not one. OpenBSD does not have any NDA's signed with anyone. Some developers privately may have NDA's signed here or there, but I actively discourage them from doing so, and assist in conversations with vendors. When we tell vendors that we won't accept NDA's, most times the hardware and documentation still arrives.
