From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phkphk.freebsd.dk)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2006 - 04:24:25 CDT

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In message <44DC47D7.2050908fadesa.es>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Jos=E9_M=2E_Fandi=F1
o=22?= writes:

>> Sam compiled those binaries, he has the source code.
>>
> And it is a matter of trust.
>
>from the phk's comments I deduce that it was a NDA between Atheros
>and FreeBSD.

The NDA is between Atheros and Sam Leffler.

>In my opinion the difference is that with NDA you place trust in
>a few persons (the ones with the code), whilst with open source
>drivers the code can be reviewed by all people with enough
>knowledge about the subject and since peer review is an important
>concept in FOSS quality (and security) it would be desirable
>to have free code.

While that is certainly true, I also feel that the fact that
Atheros has actively tried to work with the FOSS people to get
a good driver should be credited to them.

Other vendors have been totally impossible to work with.

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