Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 14:22:19 +0900 From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) To: nc@ain.charm.net Cc: todd@water.eng.mcmaster.ca, questions@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? Message-ID: <199504170522.OAA13653@remington.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 16 Apr 1995 17:56:11 -0400 (EDT). <Pine.BSF.3.91.950416175405.15001A-100000@ain.charm.net>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.950416175405.15001A-100000@ain.charm.net> nc@ain.charm.net writes: >> Doesn't Linux have a driver supporting some Xircom hardware? I could have No. There are no Xircom cards in the supported list of Linux PCMCIA driver (2.4.5). >> sworn I have seen those running around. Moreover, I still haven't figured >> out why companies that make *hardware* hate free software? Its not like I heard that the president of Xircom hates free software by philosophycal reasons. They protect device driver from reverse-engineering by encrypting the drivers, and I heard that they won't give us any hardware information without exclusive contracts. If I am wrong, please someone correct it. >> making free software will reduce the purchases or profit margins of their >> hardware, in fact, it will probably increase them. [software doesn't make >> much sense without hardware]. --How could we run FreeBSD without several >> megabytes of RAM? Texas Instruments and/or Micron aren't going to say >> their chips aren't designed to be used with free software. -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
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