=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/lyrics.html,v retrieving revision 1.51 retrieving revision 1.52 diff -u -r1.51 -r1.52 --- www/lyrics.html 2005/04/19 05:27:19 1.51 +++ www/lyrics.html 2005/04/19 08:17:03 1.52 @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Over the last six months, this came to a head in the OpenBSD project. We asked our users to help us petition numerous vendors so that we could get chipset documentation or redistributable firmware. Certainly, we did -not succeed for some vendors. But we very well influenced some vendors, in +not succeed for some vendors. But we did influence some vendors, in particular the Taiwanese (Ralink and Realtek), who have given us everything we need. We also reverse engineered the Atheros chipsets.

@@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ ADMTek, Atheros. Our manual pages attempt to explain which vendors (ie. D-Link) box -which chipsets into product. +which chipsets into which product.

Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in -Redmond largely continues their practices because they get +Redmont largely continues their practices because they get the chipset documentation years before everyone else does. What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them @@ -1225,6 +1225,6 @@ OpenBSD Public Discussion Forum about contents of these web pages: www@openbsd.org -
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