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Jason Miller, 2004-12-01

Trust with hardware vendors for open source systems is becoming a one-way street, where in exchange for support they offer a closed source binary solution with no provision to audit security.

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Closed Source Hardware - Clarifications 2004-12-07
Andreas Mohr
While it doesn't really help security issues of in-kernel proprietary HALs, I'd much rather have a binary vendor HAL from a quite supporting vendor rather than no vendor support AT ALL (as is the case with my ACX1xx wireless cards project, http://acx100.sf.net).

Regarding "the only cards that I'...

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