Re: Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component

On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 07:03:22AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:

We have sources to our web browsers but not to the a number of the various web services that the browsers talk to (GMail, AIM, Gmane, Yahoo Finance, Google Search, etc.).

And we have the sources to the Intel wireless drivers, but not to the firmware, and that's not necessarily considered a horrendous thing.

But we did consider it a horrendous thing when we had the source to a Intel wireless driver but not the source to the usercode regulatory daemon it required. Sufficiently horrendous not to merge the driver.