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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:06:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d54a5ac5446c553c58fa7ebf929c8c99@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p0624080ec967612bb5e4@[192.168.1.155]>

>  once had a high level discussion with some 802.11 chip companies about open source drivers. Their biggest fear seems to be in revealing all of the various bugs in their chips. Which I thought was interesting.

Wouldn't it be better to get early silicon and full documentation out
to 3rd party driver writers so more bugs can be found before they get
even more expensive to fix?  Or am I being naive?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-28 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-27 17:35 Lawrence E. Bakst
2011-01-27 17:38 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-27 18:00   ` Lawrence E. Bakst
2011-01-27 18:16     ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-28  2:45       ` hiro
2011-01-28  2:47         ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-28  3:04         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-01-28  4:57       ` Lawrence E. Bakst
     [not found]       ` <p06240816c967e571b63d@192.168.1.155>
2011-01-28 21:31         ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-01-28 21:56           ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-28 23:42             ` hiro
2011-01-29 10:40             ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-01-29 10:51           ` Lawrence E. Bakst
     [not found]           ` <p0624080bc969982a9965@192.168.1.155>
2011-01-29 11:09             ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-01-29 13:17               ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-29 23:56               ` Noah Evans
2011-01-28 10:06     ` Richard Miller [this message]
2011-01-28 12:50       ` hiro
2011-01-28 13:36         ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-01 16:56           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-02-01 22:27             ` hiro
2011-02-01 22:52               ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-27 18:01   ` Lawrence E. Bakst

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