Re:Linux Vendor Firmware Service
by mikegerwitz on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:39AM
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> 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.
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.