On 10/21/07, Sebastien Bourdeauducq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 21 October 2007 06:18:02 howard parkin wrote: > > > > First problem: not all data sheets are available online, > > > > namely for the SIL1178 and CX25874 are hidden somewhere. > > > > I have these. I not sure if I should allow them to be downloaded > > by everyone though. While these data sheets were free and downloadable > > from the manufacturer at some point in the past, this is no longer > > the case, and I wonder if its worth upsetting SI/Conexant by > > posting these. > > Well, since Conexant already upsets us by never releasing information about > how to write drivers for computer hardware based on their chipsets (forcing > us to use Microsoft software, NDISWrapper, etc.), I think it is quite fair to > make that datasheet available to everyone :D >
Fair and Karmic, but not legal. Pick your battles. If you're going to put yourself at risk, you should do it over something that's a serious hardship over something you can't live without. We're the FOSS community. We're the good guys. We need to always be the good guys, which means we need to be conscious of law and ethics. We're the OGP, and we need to maintain a reputation for respecting people's rights and property, even if we don't always agree with their actions or claims. We can fight injustice using that same system of law and ethics. But like I pointed out in the other email, I founded the OGP on the idea of solving our problems through engineering. If someone else won't give us what we want, then we'll exercise our creativity and develop our own solutions. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
