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Re:Linux Vendor Firmware Service by mikegerwitz on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:39AM (#15815581)
> Providing open source drivers/stacks will in many cases provide insight into implementation details you do not want competitors to easily understand

Competitors will have the resources to reverse engineer; it's not an effective means of hiding implementation details. It _is_ an effective means of wasting free software and security communities' time by forcing them to reverse engineer if they want to use hardware.

Re:Linux Vendor Firmware Service by svendbt on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:51AM (#15816092)
They will, but the cost to do so increases by several decades.