[linux-audio-user] Re: LightScribe and linux

From: Cesare Marilungo <cesare@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Dec 05 2006 - 07:28:33 EET

Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>
> Cesare Marilungo:
>> Tommi Sakari Uimonen wrote:
>>>>>> I mean big hardware manufacturers releasing open source drivers.
>>>>> Is > there any?
>>>>>>
>>>>> AFAICT Intel are somehow tied to a group (maybe directly) which
>>>>> works on
>>>>> Xorg drivers for Intel GFX hardware. Are Intel big enough ? :)
>>>>>
>>>> Somehow :-) . Maybe directly ;-) .
>>>
>>> http://intellinuxgraphics.org
>>>
>>>
>>> Tommi
>>>
>>>
>> Ok, but even intel still releases most of their driver as binary only
>> (e.g. for chips used in wireless cards, modems). Why?
>>
>
> I don't have this impression of intel. Do you have any references to
> intel releasing "most of their drivers as binary only"?
>
> (maybe the do for windows, but that might just be because of tradition.)
>
>
>
Tradition? =-O

Ok. I give up. :-)

d.

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