I totally understand. The problem is that open sourcing existing
proprietary code requires work, specifically legal work. Given our
priorities and resources, it's difficult to justify spending time and
money on old code, but I'll ask......
Rich Teer wrote:
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Stephen Harpster wrote:
One of the main benefits of open source is to encourage folks to develop
support for obscure or obsolete equipment. So yes, we strongly encourage the
community to port older drivers to X.org. If you want to include those in
opensolaris.org, that's relatively easy to do as well. We, Sun, are not
opposed to that at all.
Agreed, although in some instances, this community-driven approach is
somewhat hampered by the lack of open source code for those older
devices (cg6 being about the only exception).
I guess the drivers could be reverse engineered, but the actual source
code would be a much better starting point!
--
Stephen Harpster
Director, Open Source Software
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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