Tim <ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:13 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > Hardware vendors are not going to develop full functioning drivers > and then release them to the open source community if this gives their > competitors an insight as to how to compete against them. If you really believe that licensing terms prevents a competitor from grabbing their product, diagnosing it, then using whatever they think in it is a good idea, you're deluding yourself. All sorts of industries do that (rip a competitors product apart to see what makes it tick). Licensing makes it harder for them to directly steal and use things. If they can get caught, they can get held to the license terms. But with or without a license, they can manage to make use of what information they glean, they've just got to be careful about how they use it. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </blockquote> I worked in the Mini-Computer industry for several years until it went belly up. I know all about revers engineering. The point is, why should a hardware vendor give it's competitor an out right free lunch.